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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 |
Abstract:
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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