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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...

ultimate reality is not thus committed, then the moral life, at least on many occasions, may not make sense in the final analysis. This is the topic of this chapter: the convergence of happiness and virtue, the second dimension of Kantian moral faith, the last central moral fact in need of explanation. The most famous and influential Christian book of the twentieth century is based on the conviction that morality is indeed fundamental to ultimate reality. We refer, of course, to C. S. Lewis’s Mere
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