Created goodness and the goodness of God: divine ideas and the possibility of creaturely value
Traditional theism says that the goodness of everything comes from God. Moreover, the goodness of something intrinsically valuable can only come from what has it. Many conclude from these two claims that no creatures have intrinsic value if traditional theism is true. I argue that the exemplarist th...
| Autres titres: | Special issue: "The Existence and Nature of Deities" |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Religious studies
Année: 2022, Volume: 58, Numéro: 3, Pages: 534-546 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Dieu
/ Le bien
/ Image de Dieu
/ Valeur
/ Méta-éthique
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion NBC Dieu NBE Anthropologie NCA Éthique |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Theism
B Divine Ideas B Intrinsic Value B Metaethics |
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| Résumé: | Traditional theism says that the goodness of everything comes from God. Moreover, the goodness of something intrinsically valuable can only come from what has it. Many conclude from these two claims that no creatures have intrinsic value if traditional theism is true. I argue that the exemplarist theory of the divine ideas gives the theist a way out. According to exemplarism, God creates everything according to ideas that are about himself, and so everything resembles God. Since God is wholly good in every way, and since ethical supervenience is true, it follows that creatures have intrinsic value. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412521000032 |