Reflections on Philosophy and Religion

by Alan Donagan, Anthony N. Perovich (Editor)

Overview

This book contains the collected papers of Alan Donagan on topics in the philosophy of religion. Donagan was respected as a leading figure in American moral philosophy. His untimely death in 1991 prevented him from collecting his philosophical reflections on religion, particularly Christianity, and its relation to ethics and other concerns. This collection, therefore, constitutes the fullest expression of Donagan's thought on Christianity and ethics, in which it is possible to discern the outlines of a coherent, overarching theory. Editor Anthony Perovich has supplied a useful introduction, which brings Donagan's work into focus and brings out the unifying themes in the essays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195121322
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/25/1999
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Editor's Introduction: Alan Donagan's Papers on Philosophy and Religion	xi
1	Philosophy and the Possibility of Religious Orthodoxy	3
2	Can Anybody in a Post-Christian Culture Rationally Believe the Nicene Creed?	15
3	Spinoza's Theology	35
4	St. Thomas Aquinas on the Analysis of Human Action	67
5	Human Ends and Human Actions: An Exploration in St. Thomas's Treatment	81
6	The Scholastic Theory of Moral Law in the Modern World	99
7	Teleology and Consistency in Theories of Morality as Natural Law	109
8	Moral Absolutism and the Double Effect Exception: Reflections on Joseph Boyle's "Who Is Entitled to Double Effect?"	127
9	Common Morality and Kant's Enlightenment Project	139
10	On Developing a Contemporary Theistic Ethics	157
11	Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue	165
12	The Second Edition of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue	173
13	Ethics and Theology: Two Lectures	181
	Index	199