Providing a complete course in virtue ethics, this work aims to provide a clear survey of the area, and introduces some of the most important contributions to the topic published since the 1980s, including two pieces by Rosalind Hursthouse and Michael Stocker.

Product Description: Religion and Morality seeks to answer two fundamental questions regarding the relation between religion and morality. The first is the puzzle posed by Socrates, the so-called 'Euthyphro dilemma', which asks: is morality valuable by virtue of its intrinsic importance and worth, or is morality valuable because, and only because, God approves it and commands us to follow its dictates? The second question is raised by Kierkegaard in Fear and Trembling...read more