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The Ethics of Religious Commitment
In Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 575–584 (2010)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Agnostic Religious Commitment Moral Permissibility and Evidence Moral Permissibility and Moral Content Moral Permissibility and Revisability God's Existence and Moral Obligation God's Existence and Moral Aid Concluding Remarks Works cited.
religion and values ethics of religious commitment epistemic justification of religious belief ‐ central topics in philosophy of religion some arguing that theistic faith or commitment to God ‐ is possible without belief in God agnostic religious commitment accounts of faith without belief in God ‐ varying in details and in terminology moral permissibility and evidence If God's existence is unlikely, there is a high risk that one would be acting on false assumptions moral permissibility and moral content ‐ Bishop, specifying that content of the religious claims “conforms to correct morality” God's existence and moral obligation ‐ pursuing a relationship with God, is believed to be morally obligatory
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