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Robert Merrihew Adams

Print publication date: 2002

Print ISBN-13: 9780195153712

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0195153715.001.0001

Moral Faith

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(p. 373 ) 16 Moral Faith
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Finite and Infinite Goods
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Robert Merrihew Adams (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0195153715.003.0017

Theistic metaethics has been suspected of imposing on morality a need for faith. This chapter argues that morality has such a need in any case, with or without theism. It argues this with regard both to faith in morality itself and to faith in moral ends (for instance, faith that human life and the moral life are worth living). It explores cognitive, volitional, and emotional aspects of moral faith.

Keywords:   faith, metaethics, moral faith, morality, theism, volition

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