Book contents
- God in Moral Experience
- God in Moral Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Moral Experience and Persons
- 2 Moral Experience and God
- 3 Moral Experience and Moral Rapport
- 4 Moral Experience and Moral Inspiration
- 5 Moral Experience without Philosophical Overlays
- 6 Moral Experience and Co-valuing in Conflict
- 7 Moral Experience Justified by God
- 8 Moral Experience and Theological Inquiry
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Moral Experience and Persons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- God in Moral Experience
- God in Moral Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Moral Experience and Persons
- 2 Moral Experience and God
- 3 Moral Experience and Moral Rapport
- 4 Moral Experience and Moral Inspiration
- 5 Moral Experience without Philosophical Overlays
- 6 Moral Experience and Co-valuing in Conflict
- 7 Moral Experience Justified by God
- 8 Moral Experience and Theological Inquiry
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
For our current purposes, we shall think of persons as voluntary deciders who make decisions with varying degrees of deliberation and rationality relative to their intentions or goals. They settle on chosen options and then proceed to try to bring about those options, with more or less success. Such decision-making has a creative aspect, at least in the chosen timing of exercise of a will, even if the decision is familiar or ill-advised. For instance, readers of this chapter are persons who have decided voluntarily to read it, and they could have decided otherwise. We have no reason to suppose that the laws of nature or of science or any other laws require their reading it, now or ever.
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- God in Moral ExperienceValues and Duties Personified, pp. 22 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023