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This exploration delves into the nature of value judgments and their significance in guiding human priorities and goals. It examines the values that influence our perceptions of a good life and the criteria for deserving a good life. By connecting various analyses of human value judgments with interpretations of God's character, the text highlights how these judgments reflect divine intentions and the moral objectives we are encouraged to pursue.

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.

An ethical framework is developed to explore the nature of goodness and its pursuit. The author analyzes the term "good," proposing a welfarist view where mental states directly influence well-being and desires drive motivation rather than moral beliefs. He argues against the concept of "objective wrongness" while defending the possibility of "objective goodness." In the second part, a Christian perspective on achieving a good life is presented, emphasizing relationships of benevolence as central to human flourishing, in line with Hume's focus on desire.