The virtues of God and the foundations of ethics

Faith and Philosophy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 538-553

  Zagzebski, Linda ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79955242751     PISSN: 07397046     EISSN: 21533393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/faithphil199815446     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. See S. G. Clarke and E. Simpson, eds, Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1989)
2. But Julia Annas argues that in ancient ethics there is no such thing as a substantial notion of the natural which is not dependent upon holding certain moral theses to be true. See The Morality of Happiness (Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 441.
3. See, for example, the recent book, Is There a Human Nature?, edited by Leroy S. Rouner (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).
4. See Julia Annas (op. cit.). A good collection of essays on happiness in ethics is Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics, ed. by Stephen Engstrom and Jennifer Whiting (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
5. Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Part II. A more detailed presentation of the theory appears in the first of my Jellema Lectures, "Making Motivation Ethically Primary," delivered at Calvin College March 1995.
6. //What an Emotion Is: A Sketch," Philosophical Review 97, 2 (April 1988), 183
7. Norman Kretzmann, The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa contra gentiles I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) for the most detailed commentary on Aquinas's natural theology in recent decades. The translation to which I refer appears in Chapter Eight.
8. See Menachem Kellner, "Jewish Ethics," A Companion to Ethics, ed. by Peter Singer (Blackwell, 1991), p. 84.
9. Adams, "Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again," Journal of Religious Ethics 7 (1979), 66-79.
10. Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, "Absolute Simplicity," Faith and Philosophy 2 (1985), 353-382.
11. "An Agent-Based Approach to the Problem of Evil," International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 39 (June 1996) 127-139; "Perfect Goodness and Divine Motivation Theory," Midwest Studies, vol. 20 (Philosophy of Religion), 1997.