Intrinsic value and love: three challenges for God's Own Ethics

I advance three challenges for the view Murphy advances in God's Own Ethics. The first two challenges target Murphy's claim that God does not have requiring reasons to prevent the suffering of rational creatures. I develop two arguments against that position, one based on the intrinsic val...

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Published in:Religious studies
Main Author: Wielenberg, Erik J. 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2017]
In: Religious studies
Review of:God's own ethics (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Wielenberg, Erik J.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B God / Moral act / Suffering
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:I advance three challenges for the view Murphy advances in God's Own Ethics. The first two challenges target Murphy's claim that God does not have requiring reasons to prevent the suffering of rational creatures. I develop two arguments against that position, one based on the intrinsic value of human beings, the other based on the intrinsic badness of the suffering of rational creatures. My third challenge targets Murphy's account of God's contingent love for humanity. I seek to raise doubts about whether Murphy's picture is one in which it is true to say that God loves all human beings.
ISSN:1469-901X
Reference:Kritik in "Replies to Wielenberg, Irwin, and Draper (2017)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412517000385