This book is the first full examination of the ethical parameters of paganism when thought-about as a world religion alongside Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. The issues of evil, value and idolatry from a pagan perspective are analyzed as a a part of the Western ethical customized from the Sophists and Platonic schools by the use of the philosophers Spinoza, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche to such trendy thinkers as Grayling, Mackie, MacIntyre, Habermas, Levinas, Santayana, and so forth. From a additional smart viewpoint, a delineation of utilized pagan ethics is then launched in reference to current moral factors such as comparable-intercourse union, leisure drugs, environmental consciousness, abortion and terrorism. Lastly, overviews of sectarian pagan ethics (Shinto, Santeria, Heathenism, Druidry, Romuva, Slavic, Kemeticism, Classical and Wicca) current every the general and pagan reader with an understanding of the provocative differ and differentiation of pagan ethical thought. The book approaches the Western ethical customized as an historic enchancment and a persevering with dialogue. The novelty of this technique lies in its consideration of paganism as a dependable voice of religious spirituality reasonably than a satanic aberration or ridiculous childish conduct. The book is aimed towards every the fashionable Western pagan and anyone with an curiosity inside the moral dilemmas of our events and the desire to work together inside the worldwide ethical dialogue. Among the many many additional vital choices of the book are its presentation of a re-evaluation of idolatry, the notion of the benefit value, the richness of the pagan customized, and the enlargement of Western ethics previous its Christian heritage.