ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to articulate a moral theory which sees a God’s Eye Point of View as a desirable ideal. The Ideal Observer Theory (IOT) defended is explicitly anchored against bias, but there is also the explicit claim that moral reflection involves an affective component which takes seriously local temperaments and personal observations. The IOT has been articulated independently of theism, though some proponents are explicitly indebted to theism; for example, Roderick Firth developed his IOT with one eye on the attributes of God. But for those of us who are theists, one may understand the IOT as not delimiting an ideal which may or may not exist, but as demarcating elements in the actual loving Creator God. In classical theism God is understood to be necessarily existing, omnipotent, eternal, the free, gracious Creator and sustainer of the cosmos, worthy of worship and the object of our supplications.
