Religious Obedience and Moral Autonomy
It has become fashionable to try to prove the impossibility of there being a God. Findlay's celebrated ontological disproof has in the past quarter century given rise to vigorous controversy. More recently James Rachels has offered a moral argument intended to show that there could not be a bei...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1975]
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Religious studies
Jahr: 1975, Band: 11, Heft: 3, Seiten: 265-281 |
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Zusammenfassung: | It has become fashionable to try to prove the impossibility of there being a God. Findlay's celebrated ontological disproof has in the past quarter century given rise to vigorous controversy. More recently James Rachels has offered a moral argument intended to show that there could not be a being worthy of worship. In this paper I shall examine the position Rachels is arguing for in some detail. I shall endeavor to show that his argument is unsound and, more interestingly, that the genuine philosophical perplexity which motivates it can be dispelled without too much difficulty. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500008416 |