God and the ontological foundation of morality

Religious Studies 48 (1):15 - 34 (2012)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In recent years, William Lane Craig has vigorously championed a moral argument for God's existence. The backbone of Craig's argument is the claim that only God can provide a ' sound foundation in reality' for morality. The present article has three principal aims. The first is to interpret and clarify the account of the ontological foundation of morality proposed by Craig. The second is to press home an important objection to that account. The third is to expose the weakness of Craig's case for saying that without God morality would be groundless and illusory.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1017/s0034412510000740

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,202

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

In Defense of Non-Natural, Non-Theistic Moral Realism.Erik J. Wielenberg - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (1):23-41.
Gewirth and Adams on the Foundation of Morality.William M. O’Meara - 1982 - Philosophy Research Archives 8:367-381.
Vindicating Kant’s Morality.Robert Arp - 2007 - International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (1):5-22.
Is Goodness Without God Good Enough?: A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics.Robert K. Garcia & Nathan L. King (eds.) - 2008 - Rowman & Littlefield.
Rejoinder to William Lane Craig.David B. Myers - 2003 - Religious Studies 39 (4):427-430.
The evolution of morality and religion.Donald M. Broom - 2003 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Common morality and moral reform.K. A. Wallace - 2009 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30 (1):55-68.
Common morality: Comment on Beauchamp and Childress.Oliver Rauprich - 2008 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 29 (1):43-71.
The Moral Foundation of Law and the Ethos of Liberal Democracies.Didier Mineur - 2012 - Ratio Juris 25 (2):133-148.
Artificial morality: Top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid approaches. [REVIEW]Colin Allen, Iva Smit & Wendell Wallach - 2005 - Ethics and Information Technology 7 (3):149-155.
Craig on the actual infinite.Wes Morriston - 2002 - Religious Studies 38 (2):147-166.
Morals by agreement.David P. Gauthier - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Political Realism and Political Idealism: The Difference that Evil Makes.Roman Altshuler - 2009 - Public Reason 1 (2):73-87.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-09-30

Downloads
346 (#55,294)

6 months
50 (#80,085)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander.Robert Bass - 2023 - Journal of Value Inquiry 1:1-19.
God, the meaning of life, and a new argument for atheism.Jason Megill & Daniel Linford - 2016 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 79 (1):31-47.

View all 11 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

A Darwinian dilemma for realist theories of value.Sharon Street - 2006 - Philosophical Studies 127 (1):109-166.
Ethical Intuitionism.Michael Huemer - 2005 - New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View.Lynne Rudder Baker - 2000 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View.Peter Van Inwagen - 2002 - Philosophical Review 111 (1):138.
What if the impossible had been actual.Linda Zagzebski - 1990 - In M. Beaty (ed.), Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 165--183.

View all 13 references / Add more references