Reviews for Ethics, faith, and reason

The average rating for Ethics, faith, and reason based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-30 00:00:00 Claus Durst This is a great work on ethics. If the text were split in three sections I believe the first section would be Euthyphro; what it means for something to be good as decreed by god and something that is good and thus god decreed. The second section begins to look at humanistic rational ethics. Understanding that even the Christian would accept that something must be good and thus desired by god rather than good arbitrarily. The third section follows with looks into what the ethic would look like in practical reality as well as the realities to follow from such a humanist ethic. Obviously I sum up so much... I find I live this morality... I would recommend this book to anyone interested in finding ethical principals by rational steps. I do not think this excludes atheist or theist it simply excludes irrationalists.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-29 00:00:00 Forrest Messick I found this to be a very insightful argument on how Ethics is not only possible but also coherent without God. I personally think the way he dealt with the divine commandment theory was well done since he was able to show that the term "commandment" does not always entail "goodness". It was his semantic/logical analysis of basic terms that I found to be helpful as well as his positive account of secular morality. While his utilitarian stance is dubious since it suffers from many infamous objections, I still think that Nielsen was able to convince me that ethics is possible without God.