Robert Merrihew Adams
Wrongness is being contrary to the commands of a loving God: the best account of morality goes through God.
Life
American philosopher who taught at UCLA, Yale and Oxford, among others. He is known for a theistic ethics: goodness is resemblance to God, and wrongness is being contrary to the commands of a loving God. He also wrote on Leibniz, faith and the metaphysics of value.
Main works
Grounds goodness and moral obligation in God as the supreme Good.
Essays in philosophy of religion and ethics.
A study of Leibniz's metaphysics.
Positions
click a row to see the evidenceA theist philosopher who grounds the good in God.
Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods (1999)
Wrongness is being contrary to the commands of a loving God; goodness is resemblance to God.
Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods (1999)
Moral facts are objective, grounded in God as the supreme Good.
Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods (1999)