The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 30. The book is alphabetized by the whole headings of entries, as distinct from the first word of a heading. Hence, for example, abandonment comes before a priori and a posteriori. It is wise to look elsewhere if something seems to be missing. At the end of the book there is also a useful appendix on Logical Symbols as well as the appendices A Chronological Table of Philosophy and Maps of Philosophy. | 270 eternity defined it as the total and perfect possession at once of an endless life . It seemed unthinkable that for God there should be a no longer and a not yet . Most Christian thinkers since the fourth century unlike the authors ofthe Bible held that God exists outside time but in his timeless realm simultaneously acts at and knows about every moment of time. It is however doubtful if this is a coherent claim if God sees some event in 500 bc as it happens and sees some other event in 2000 ad as it happens and all divine seeings are simultaneous with each other then 500 bc must be the same year as 2000 ad which is absurd. . N. Pike God and Timelessness London 1970 . ethical formalism. A type of ethical theory which defines moral judgements in terms of their logical form for example as laws or universal prescriptions rather than their content for example as judgements about what actions will best promote human well-being . The term often also carries critical connotations. Kant for example has been criticized for defining morality in terms of the formal feature of being a universal law and then attempting to derive from this formal feature various concrete moral duties. . prescriptivism. Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals various edns. . tr. H. J. Paton London 1948 . G. J. Warnock Contemporary Moral Philosophy London 1967 . ethical naturalism see naturalism ethical. ethical objectivism see objectivism and subjectivism ethical. ethical relativism see relativism ethical. ethical subjectivism see objectivism and subjectivism ethical. ethical voluntarism see voluntarism ethical. ethics see moral philosophy. ethics applied see applied ethics. ethics axiological see axiological ethics. ethics bio- see bioethics. ethics business see business ethics. ethics Chinese see Chinese philosophy Confucianism. ethics deontological see deontological ethics. ethics divine command see divine command ethics. ethics emotive theory of see emotive .
