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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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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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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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Religions, 2023 Atheist moral philosopher Erik Wielenberg recently argued that Divine Command Theory is implausible as an explanation of objective morality because it fails to explain how psychopaths have moral obligations.
Adam Lloyd Johnson
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An Exploration of Metaphysical Grounding and Divine Command Theory
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 The concept of metaphysical grounding refers to a dependence relation—a relation between facts that is asymmetrical and non-causal. I aim to apply this concept to a Divine Command Theory (DCT) of moral obligations. Divine command theorists say that moral
Mileo Jesse
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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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Religions, 2023 Erik Wielenberg has offered a fascinating argument from moral psychology against a sophisticated theistic account of moral obligations: Divine Command Theory (DCT).
Christopher R. Pruett
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In Defence of the Epistemological Objection to Divine Command Theory [PDF]
, 2019 Divine command theories come in several different forms but at their core all of these theories claim that certain moral statuses exist in virtue of the fact that God has commanded them to exist. Several authors argue that this core version of the DCT is
Danaher, John
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Sterba’s Argument from Evil and Objections to Divine Command Theory
ReligionsThis paper will respond to James Sterba’s paper “An Ethics without God That is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution”. In his paper, Sterba argues that God cannot be the source of morality.
Caleb Cumberland
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Divine command theory and psychopathy
Religious Studies, 2018 AbstractI advance a novel challenge for Divine Command Theory based on the existence of psychopaths. The challenge, in a nutshell, is that Divine Command Theory has the implausible implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations and hence their evil acts, no matter how evil, are morally permissible.
Erik J. Wielenberg
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