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Fact, value, and God

Author: Arthur F Holmes
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. ; Leicester, England : Apollos, 1997.
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This book began as an attempt to explore historical ways of grounding moral values objectively in the nature of reality. Unconvinced that we live in a value-free universe, that face and value are ultimately interrelated, or that we have to create all our own values rather that discovering the good, I wanted to explore the fact-value connection in the larger context of metaphysical and theological views. What emerged  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur F Holmes
ISBN: 0802843123 9780802843128
OCLC Number: 36387253
Description: viii, 183 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Cosmic justice and the Pre-Socratics --
Plato and the improvement of the soul --
Aristotle and nature's teleology --
The divine logos and the goodness of creation --
Augustine : God and the soul --
Thomas Aquinas : a creational ethic --
Scotus, Ockham, and the Reformers : what God commands --
Right reason and the scientific revolution --
Human nature and moral teleology --
Kant's moral worldview --
Hegel : idealist ethics --
Ethics as empirical science --
Nietzsche : fact and value with no God --
In retrospect.
Other Titles: Fact, value, and God /
Responsibility: Arthur F. Holmes.
Local System Bib Number:
102967

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This book began as an attempt to explore historical ways of grounding moral values objectively in the nature of reality. Unconvinced that we live in a value-free universe, that face and value are ultimately interrelated, or that we have to create all our own values rather that discovering the good, I wanted to explore the fact-value connection in the larger context of metaphysical and theological views. What emerged is a more pervasive linkage than I had anticipated between religious and moral beliefs. Rorty is in measure right. But the claim that values are somehow objective, "out there," is a legacy on which we still need to draw.
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