God and Morality

God and Morality evaluates the ethics of four principal philosophers - Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R. M. Hare - placing an emphasis on the often circumvented relationship between their ethical theories and theism. While focusing on central concepts such as virtue, will, duty, and consequences, the author never loses sight of the larger context in which these views appear, presenting the work of these philosophers as keys to understanding the historical advancement of ethical thought during four great periods in Western philosophical history. This book defies traditional modes of comparison between these important philosophers by paying close attention not only to differences in their thought, but to significant and sometimes surprising similarities, taking seriously the role of God in their moral theories.

Introduction. 1. Aristotle.
The School of Athens.
The Protretpicus.
God and Nous in Nicomachean Ethics Book I.
The First Sentence of the Nicomachean Ethics.
Heading towards the Good Virtue.
Larry Arnhart.
2. Duns Scotus.
The Disputà .
Duns Scotus, Lectura.
The Two Affections of the Will.
Justice and God.
Scotus and Virtue.
Scotus and Particularity.
Jean-Paul Sartre.
3. Immanuel Kant.
The Time Between.
Kant, Lectures on Ethics (Collins).
The Groundwork.
The Critique of Practical Reason.
Religion.
Metaphysics of Morals.
Christine Korsgaard.
4. R. M. Hare.
The Time Between.
"An Essay on Monism".
The Language of Morals.
Freedom and Reason.
Moral Thinking.
Peter Singer.
5. Combining the Theories.
The Goal of the Chapter.
Virtue Theory.
Command Theory.
Consequentialism.
Bibliography.
Index of Biblical References.
General Index.