PHIL 762

God and Morality

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for PHIL 762.

Description

The course explores recent work in analytic philosophy at the boundaries between moral philosophy, philosophy of religion and metaphysics. We will focus on the following two questions: What is the relationship between God and morality? What is the relationship between immortality and morality? Specific topics may include: divine command ethics, God and objective value, the ethics of religious ambiguity, divine virtue ethics, Kant’s moral arguments for God and immortality, God and equality, the desirability of immortality, whether immortality is necessary for morality, Idealism and immortality and Sidgwick’s dualism and parapsychology. 

Availability 2017

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor John Bishop
Lecturer(s) Professor Timothy Mulgan

Recommended Reading

There is no set text. Students interested in the course might look at the following:

-        Adams, R. M., Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2002.

-        Bishop, J., Believing by Faith, Oxford University Press, 2007.

-        Mulgan, T., Purpose in the Universe, Oxford University Press, 2015.

-        Zagzebski, L., Divine Motivation Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Points

PHIL 762: 15 points