Author: A.W. Musschenga
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Keywords: morality, religion, independence, meaning, life, reappraisal, matter, morally, critical, thesis
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 9039004048
ISBN-13: 9789039004043

In the dominant view, morality is more rational and universal than, and therefore independent from, (christian) religion. Believers do not have exclusive moral knowledge. Moral principles can be known by anyone. Morality, not religion, is the supreme judge of human actions in the world. Some contributors to this volume defend this view on theological and philosophical grounds. The advantages of such a view for thinking about a common global morality are clear. However, according to many authors, the conception of morality underlying this view is at the least, impoverished, if not wrong: this v