God and Value Judgments

When it seems that some outcome is good or that someone is deserving, what might God be attempting to communicate?

Kevin Kinghorn (Author)

9781009296090, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 February 2024

72 pages
23 x 15 x 0.5 cm, 0.117 kg

Humans continually make judgments that some things have more value than others. Plausibly, it is largely through our value judgments that God intends to guide us in setting priorities and goals. This Element surveys leading accounts of what value judgments are exactly. It then explores the particular values we are apparently sensitive to when making two judgments endemic to human life: about what makes a life good, and about who deserves a good life. Connections are made between differing analyses of human value judgments and views about God's character and the goals God is prompting us to pursue.

1. Could value judgments be communications from god?
2. Judgments and the role of intuition
3. Judgments about the good life
4. Judgments about who deserves a good life
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Subject Areas: Philosophy of religion [HRAB]