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Debunking Divine Command Theory
Religions, 2023 The divine command theory holds that morality finds its origin in God or that God is somehow closely connected to morality. Many people across the world hold a related, though different belief that Religious belief is required for proper moral behavior ...
Hans Van Eyghen
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Divine Command Theory – a critical reflections [PDF]
Idei, 2018 The technological and cultural development of society brings urgent challenges of an interdisciplinary character that also exert an influence over the humanities. In the ethical discourse on current trends in moral reasoning, the metaethical theory known
Tibor Mahrik
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A Christological Critique of Divine Command Theory
Religions, 2023 This paper presents a theological critique of divine command theory, a metaethical theory stating that moral wrongness is constituted by God’s command.
Martin Jakobsen
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Modified Divine Command Theory: Robert Merrihew Adams on the Relation between Divine Command and Moral Obligation [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2016 Divine command theory is hitherto faced with some problems such as Euthyphro problem and moral arbitrariness. Robert Merrihew Adams tries to defend this theory by proposing a new form of it. He expresses that this theory can explain only moral obligation
Mahdi Ghafourian +2 more
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Beyond Divine Command Theory: Moral realism in the Hebrew Bible
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009 Philosophical approaches to ancient Israelite religion are rare, as is metaethical reflection on the Hebrew Bible. Nevertheless, many biblical scholars and philosophers of religion tend to take it for granted that the biblical metaethical assumptions ...
Jaco W. Gericke
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The Relationship Between the Divine Command Theory and Human Rights [PDF]
پژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2023 The relationship between the foundation of ethics and the criteria for assessing good and bad actions and behaviors of individuals from the perspective of divine command theorists, and its connection with human rights, has always been a subject of ...
Alireza Dabirnia +2 more
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Criticism of the classical Divine Command Ethics : A comparative study of Wainwright's objection with the objections of Muslim rationalist theologians [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022 This article first explains the classical version of the Divine command ethics in both Christian and Islamic traditions, and then by pointing out its coherency, at least in appearance, with Divine sovereignty and absolute power, it tries to show why this
Mohsen Javadi
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Divine command theory: logical refutation and theological justification [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2020 In the article, the problem of sources of moral authority in intellectual history associated with Christianity is observed. Among possible concepts of moral sources, namely, virtue ethics, ethics of natural law, and divine command theory, the focus is on
Elena Stepanova
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Explanation of Robert Adams's View of the Theory of the Divine Commond and Ash'arites Divine Command [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 The theory of the divine command is one of the main theories of the philosophy of ethics, which discusses religion and its relationship with morality, the good and bad of actions, divine command and prohibition, and other moral issues.
Abdollah Asadi +3 more
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Is Theism Incompatible with the Pauline Principle?
Religions, 2022 This paper criticises James Sterba’s use of the Pauline principle to formulate a logical version of the problem of evil. Sterba’s argument contains a crucial premise: If human agents are always prohibited from doing some action, God is also prohibited ...
Matthew Flannagan
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