Moral Values and the Idea of God
The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1914 and 1915

First published in 1918, this book is concerned with the relation between the true foundation of ethics and the true knowledge of God.

W. R. Sorley (Author)

9781107644151, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 December 2013

556 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.81 kg

First published in 1918 and originally delivered as the Gifford Lectures in the University of Aberdeen in 1914 and 1915, this book is concerned with the relation between the true foundation of ethics and the true knowledge of God. Sorley explores the limits of morality and the problem of the divergence between the order of existence and the moral order, as well as the question of freedom and the very idea of God. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ethics or in the theistic grounding of morality.

Preface
1. The problem
2. Values
3. The meaning of value
4. The criteria of moral value
5. Value and personality
6. Relative and absolute value
7. The conservation of value
8. Value and reality
9. The division of reality
10. The unity of reality
11. The interpretation of reality
12. The theistic arguments
13. The moral argument
14. Pluralism
15. Monism
16. Purpose
17. Freedom
18. Theism
19. The idea of God
20. The limits of morality
Index.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]