Fact Value and God

Philosopher Arthur F. Holmes surveys the historical ways of grounding moral values objectively in the nature of reality pausing along the way to consider such major landmarks in Western thought as Plato Aristotle Augustine Thomas Aquinas Ockham the Reformers Kant Hegel and Nietzsche.Holmes is not convinced that we live in a value-free universe that fact and value are ultimately unrelated or that we have to create all our own values rather than discovering the good. He explores the fact-value connection in the larger context of metaphysical and theological views. What emerges is a pervasive-and convincing-link between religious and moral beliefs.