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Naturalistic ethics is the reigning paradigm among contemporary ethicists; in God and Cosmos, David Baggett and Jerry L. Walls argue that this approach is seriously flawed. This book canvasses a broad array of secular and naturalistic ethical theories in an effort to test their adequacy in accounting for moral duties, intrinsic human value, moral knowledge, prospects for radical moral...

I suspect that what we have in Kant is the recognition that there cannot be, in any “reasonable” way, a moral demand upon me, unless reality itself is committed to morality in some deep way. It makes sense only if there is a moral demand on the world too and only if reality will in the end satisfy that demand.[38] The demands of morality, it must be reiterated, are often difficult and even extremely costly. The issue, again, is what obligates us to pay the price of morality, and whether such a demand
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