God and Moral Obligation

One of the things for which C. Stephen Evans is best known is his excellent work on Kierkegaard. Though references to Kierkegaard in this new book are fairly scant, they occur here and there. In the concluding section, for instance, Evans quotes the Danish philosopher's striking assertion that there ‘has never been an atheist, even though there certainly have been many who have been unwilling to let what they know (that the God exists) get control over their minds’ (quoted on p. 183). Evans interprets this assertion, in the light of the argument presented in his book, to mean that those who are aware of their moral obligations ‘have a kind of de re knowledge of God’, since awareness of one's moral obligations simply is awareness of God's commands (p. 183). That is, in a nutshell, the thesis for which the book argues: that ‘moral obligation’ and ‘divine command’ are merely two terms for ‘the same reality’ (p. 28).

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