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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...

Let us now return to Lewis and his case for the Tao in light of Sidgwick and Kant. It is striking first of all that all three of these thinkers, diverse as they are in some ways, agree that there are self-evident moral truths that are axiomatic in their clarity and moral authority. This is not to claim that their views are identical on this point, but the agreement about the rational accessibility of foundational moral truth is nonetheless
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