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God, goodness and philosophy / edited by Harriet A. Harris.

Contributor(s): Harris, Harriet A
Material type: TextTextSeries: British Society for the Philosophy of Religion series: Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409428510 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1409428516 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781409428527 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1409428524 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Religious ethics | Ethics | Religion -- Philosophy | God -- GoodnessDDC classification: 205 LOC classification: BJ1188 | .G63 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-250) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : philosophizing about God, goodness and morality / Harriet A. Harris -- What's the use of philosophy of religion? / Victoria S. Harrison -- Goodness, morality and transcendence -- The source of goodness / John Cottingham -- Euthyphro's 'dilemma', Socrates' Daimonion and Plato's God / Timothy Chappell -- Beyond divine command theory : moral realism in the Hebrew Bible / Jaco Gericke -- Does divine simplicity solve the Euthyphro dilemma? / Anders Kraal -- Piety, purity and the sacred / Roger Scruton -- Evolution and agapeistic ethics / Robin Attfield -- God, ethics and evolution / Herman Philipse -- Evil and the goodness of God -- God, omniscience and understanding evil / Dan O'Brien -- What makes generosity sometimes unjust? / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- God's love and the problem of hell / Ioanna-Maria Patsalidou -- The origin of evil and the benefits of sin / Vasil Gluchman -- God and moral responsibility / Alicja A. Gescinska -- Afterword : the continuing debate on morality and God / John Cottingham.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-250) and index.

Introduction : philosophizing about God, goodness and morality / Harriet A. Harris -- What's the use of philosophy of religion? / Victoria S. Harrison -- Part I. Goodness, morality and transcendence -- The source of goodness / John Cottingham -- Euthyphro's 'dilemma', Socrates' Daimonion and Plato's God / Timothy Chappell -- Beyond divine command theory : moral realism in the Hebrew Bible / Jaco Gericke -- Does divine simplicity solve the Euthyphro dilemma? / Anders Kraal -- Piety, purity and the sacred / Roger Scruton -- Evolution and agapeistic ethics / Robin Attfield -- God, ethics and evolution / Herman Philipse -- Part II. Evil and the goodness of God -- God, omniscience and understanding evil / Dan O'Brien -- What makes generosity sometimes unjust? / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- God's love and the problem of hell / Ioanna-Maria Patsalidou -- The origin of evil and the benefits of sin / Vasil Gluchman -- God and moral responsibility / Alicja A. Gescinska -- Afterword : the continuing debate on morality and God / John Cottingham.

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