Moral Realism and the Existence of God

Jakobsen, Martin

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“…: A Critical Analysis (Parrish 2019); Stephen Parrish (forthcoming), The Nature of Moral Necessity; Natural Signs and Knowledge of God: A New Look at Theistic Arguments (Evans 2010); God and Moral Obligation (Evans 2014). (Baggett 2018;Jakobsen 2020); "The Moral Argument", (Evans and O'Neill 2021); Matthew Carey Jordan, "Some Metaethical Desiderata and the Conceptual Resources of Theism", (Jordan 2011); The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism (Moreland 2009); Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics (Moreland and Rae 2000); William Lane Craig et al, A Debate on God and Morality: What Is the Best Account of Objective Moral Values and Duties? (Craig et al 2020); Adam (2023).…”

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The Secular Moral Project and the Moral Argument for God: A Brief Synopsis History

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2023

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This article provides an overview of the history of what is termed the secular moral project by providing a synopsis of the history of the moral argument for God’s existence and the various historical processes that have contributed to the secularization of ethics. I argue that three key thinkers propel the secular moral project forward from the middle of the 19th century into the 20th century: John Stuart Mill, whose ethical thinking in Utilitarianism serves as the background to all late 19th century secular ethical thinking, Henry Sidgwick, who, in the Methods, indisputably establishes the secular autonomy of ethics as a distinctive discipline (metaethics), and finally, G.E. Moore, whose work, the Principia Ethica, stands at the forefront of virtually all secular metaethical debates concerning naturalism and non-naturalism in the first half of the 20th century. Although secular metaethics continues to be the dominant ethical view of the academy, it is shown that theistic metaethics is a strong reemerging position in the early 21st century.

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The Secular Moral Project and the Moral Argument for God: A Brief Synopsis History

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2023

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Are Moral Values Overriding? How Beauty Challenges Robert Adams’s Theory of value

Jakobsen¹

2021

Journal of Religious Ethics

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This article addresses the following meta‐ethical question: do moral values have a special position among other values? According to Robert Adams, moral values do have a special position and are of overriding importance. I argue that the "overridingness" thesis is inconsistent with Adams’s value theory that only God has value in himself and all other things are valuable to the extent that they resemble God. I consider some possible ways of integrating the overridingness thesis that are latent in Adams’s work and argue that none succeeds. My main contribution is to propose a solution to the inconsistency in Adams’s theory. I argue that a theological account of beauty gives us reason to reject the overridingness thesis. Morality overrides some other concerns, but not all other concerns.

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Mediated Morality as a Middle Position in Understanding the Relation between God and Morality

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Søvik

2023

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How should we understand the relation between God and morality? This article aims to address this question by constructing a theistic metaethical theory informed by postphenomenological mediation theory. According to postphenomenological mediation theory, properties and values are not independent entities but are instead mutually constituted through the relationships that they participate in. By emphasizing relationships and understanding goodness as harmony, the theory allows God and creation to jointly constitute goodness. This alternative theory is compared to the metaethical theories proposed by Robert M. Adams and Mark C. Murphy, which represent the two primary strands of theistic metaethics: theological voluntarism and natural law theory, respectively. The alternative theory exhibits certain advantages and resolves some of the issues found in Adams’ and Murphy’s theories.

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Moral Realism and the Existence of God

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The Secular Moral Project and the Moral Argument for God: A Brief Synopsis History

The Secular Moral Project and the Moral Argument for God: A Brief Synopsis History

Are Moral Values Overriding? How Beauty Challenges Robert Adams’s Theory of value

Mediated Morality as a Middle Position in Understanding the Relation between God and Morality

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