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Nature and Command: On the Metaphysical Foundations of Morality

Nature and Command: On the Metaphysical Foundations of Morality

Martin, Kraig
Clanton, J. Caleb

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1621906930
ISBN13: 9781621906933
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Apr 5 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Since at least the time of Plato, religious explanations of the metaphysical foundations of morality have typically fallen into one of two camps: natural law theory, according to which morality is fundamentally explained by facts about human nature--facts that God is responsible for--and divine command theory, which holds that moral obligations arise directly from God's commands or some other prescriptive act of the divine will. J. Caleb Clanton and Kraig Martin offer an accessible analysis of these traditional views, reconstruct the various arguments for and against them, and offer an extended consideration of the historical emergence of the divide between these positions within the Christian tradition. Nature and Command goes on to develop and defend a theory that combines these two views--a metaethical approach that has not yet received the scholarly attention it deserves.

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