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Divine Command Theory – Potentiality and Limits
Journal of Education Culture and SocietyThesis. Divine Command Theory (hereafter DCT) is a metaethical theory belonging to the category of moral realism of the non-cognitive type, whose popularity is growing. In this thesis, we show some of the reasons that have triggered the need to address the normativity of ethical concepts, because of which DCT receives its justification. Concept.
Tibor Máhrik, Roman Kralik
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The Psychopath Objection to Divine Command Theory
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2021 Abstract: Recently, Erik Wielenberg has developed a novel objection to divine command meta-ethics (DCM). The objection that DCM "has the implausible implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations and hence their evil acts, no matter how evil, are morally permissible". This article criticizes Wielenberg's argument.
M. Flannagan
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On the Superiority of Divine Legislation Theory to Divine Command Theory
Faith and PhilosophyThe view that human law can be analyzed in terms of commands was subjected to devastating criticism by H. L. A. Hart in his 1961 The Concept of Law. Two objections that Hart levels against the command theory of law also make serious trouble for divine ...
M. Murphy
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Divine command theory and the (supposed) incoherence of self-commanding
Religious StudiesAbstract Theological voluntarism is a family of metaethical views that share the claim that deontological statuses of actions are dependent on or identical with some divine feature. Adams's version of this theistic metaethical view is a divine command theory (DCT).
Jashiel Resto Quiñones
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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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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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