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This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure.

Humans continually make judgments that some things have more value than others. Plausibly, it is largely through our value judgments that God intends to guide us in setting priorities and goals. This Element surveys leading accounts of what value judgments are exactly. It then explores the particular values we are apparently sensitive to when making two judgments endemic to human life: about what makes a life good, and about who deserves a goo...

A contribution to the growing literature on desert in moral philosophy, this book both engages with contemporary literature and offers a new approach to understanding the concept and its relationship to justice. It will be an important resource for upper-level undergraduates and graduate researchers in moral and political philosophy.

A contribution to the growing literature on desert in moral philosophy, this book both engages with contemporary literature and offers a new approach to understanding the concept and its relationship to justice. It will be an important resource for upper-level undergraduates and graduate researchers in moral and political philosophy.

How can a loving God also be a God of wrath? Using a philosophically informed line of argument and a careful study of the relevant biblical texts, Kinghorn and Travis show how these two aspects of God's character can be reconciled. Instead of assuming that God's just response to people is incompatible with a loving response, the authors instead view God's love as a strictly essential divine attribute, with justice as a derivative of love.

This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure. In Part 1, Kevin Kinghorn offers a formal analysis of the meaning of the term "good, " the nature of goodness, and why we are motivated to pursue it. Setting this analysis within a larger ethical framework, Kinghorn proposes a way of understanding where noninstrumental value lies, the source of normativity, and the relationshi...

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