Religion and Morality

by D.Z. Phillips

Reflection on religion inevitably involves consideration of its relation to morality. When great evil is done to human beings, we may feel that something absolute has been violated. Can that sense, which is related to gratitude for existence, be expressed without religious concepts? Can we express central religious concerns, such as losing the self, while abandoning any religious metaphysic? Is moral obligation itself dependent on divine commands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333620666
• ISBN13: 9780333620663
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"