The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

confidence in the power of therapy. Perhaps a less naïve alternative is to conclude that life really is absurd. This is the posi ...

hypotheses such as Descartes' Evil Genius is to lead us to see that there is no guarantee that we get the truth even when our ep ...

of affairs at which it aims. If an act has an end, success in that act includes success in bringing about the intended end. The ...

(2) Morality requires us to be motivated to act in moral ways and to act on those motives in the appropriate circumstances. Many ...

morality. The metaphysical foundation of ethics has been problematic in modern ethics, whereas theism offers a number of plausib ...

should turn out that God's will makes what's right to be right. Acts are right/wrong because of the will of God. A plausible ver ...

species as that; and so on. In each case, the demonstrative term “that” refers to an entity to which the person doing the defini ...

even though the idea of likeness to God can be found in many traditions including some that are not religious in the usual sense ...

The arbitariness problem also does not arise in DM theory. That is because a will needs a reason, but a motive is a reason. The ...

first section, it is not important for this purpose that everyone agree on the foundation of ethics or the substantive goal at w ...

1.A very interesting and convincing alternative account of Enlightenment ethics has been given by J. B. Schneewind (1998), who a ...

13.This is assuming, of course, that the motives of which we are speaking are suitably general. Love is essential to God, but lo ...

Schneewind, A. B. 1998. The Invention of Autonomy. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Zagzebski, Linda. 2001. “Reli ...

Death comes to all creatures, but human beings are unique in realizing that they will die. Hence, they are unique in being able ...

The Christian doctrine of an afterlife is pieced together out of hints and metaphors in Scripture. Jesus' resurrection is the pa ...

There are many questions to be answered about the doctrine of resurrection. For example, is there immediate resurrection at the ...

on a mental property—an essential property in virtue of which a person is a person (having a first-person perspective) and in vi ...

world need not be altogether private. It “would be the joint product of a group of telepathetically interacting minds and public ...

Thomas Aquinas took over Aristotle's framework for understanding human beings, modifying it as little as possible to accommodate ...

person, along with the soul. Either way—whether personal identity is bodily identity or personal identity just entails bodily id ...