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6 - Moral Experience and Co-valuing in Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Paul Moser
Affiliation:
Loyola University Chicago
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We have been considering the view that God self-discloses to humans in moral values in their moral experience, including in conscience. These values, we have suggested, are intentional in that God intends them to attract people to a cooperative righteous relationship with God. The desired human cooperation includes God’s aim, from a moral point of view, for people to value as God values, to co-value with God, toward righteousness in human lives. Such co-valuing includes human valuing in accordance with the aforementioned fruit of the Spirit. It thus calls for human co-valuing with divine love as compassionate caring for the good of people, including goodwill toward one’s enemies. This chapter examines the role of such co-valuing in a context of moral conflict, where the divine aim is to form human moral character for the sake of a righteous society. The relevant love is thus righteous love guided by divine moral goodness, despite a context of ongoing moral conflict.

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God in Moral Experience
Values and Duties Personified
, pp. 148 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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