The Moral Argument

The Moral Argument offers a wide-ranging defense of the necessary connection between God and objective moral values, moral duties, proper function, and human rights. It presents several versions of the moral argument for God's existence; a survey of the history of the argument, including the more recent work of Robert Adams, John Hare, John Rist, and others; an assessment of competing meta-ethical views that attempt to ground or explain ethics; a defense of moral knowledge; and an assessment of the Euthyphro Dilemma (and related objections) for any theistic conception of moral values. The book examines - and finds wanting - various non-theistic alternatives to ground or explain morality. Although natural theological arguments have gained new strength within the past forty years or so, there has yet to be written a comprehensive book on the moral argument that covers the range of available arguments. This volume brings together the best of the available arguments under one cover.