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The Psychopath Challenge to Divine Command Theory: Reply to Flannagan
Sophia, 2023 Erik Wielenberg has presented an objection to divine command theory (DCT) alleging that DCT has the troubling implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations. Matthew Flannagan has replied to Wielenberg’s argument.
Erik J Wielenberg
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Divine Command and Socratic Piety in the Euthyphro [PDF]
Peitho, 2011 While Socrates was in his own way a deeply religious man, the Euthyphro is often thought to provide a refutation of the divine command theory of morality: the theory that what is morally good is good because it is divinely approved.
Glen Koehn
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, 1978 Abstract This chapter proposes some distinct divine command theories of ethics. It constructs an elaborate theory which incorporates the divine command theorist's assumptions about the relations between God's commands and several kinds of moral status.
Philip L. Quinn
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Virtue Depends on Natural Law and Divine Commands
ReligionsVirtue theory has occupied a place of relative prominence within the Christian intellectual tradition. But there is a problem facing it: how one contemplates the virtues and vices will ultimately depend upon deeper accounts of the good and the right ...
J. Caleb Clanton, Kraig Martin
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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]
Sophia, 2017 Divine command theories (DCTs) come in several different forms but at their core all of these theories claim that certain moral statuses (most typically the status of being obligatory) exist in virtue of the fact that God has commanded them to exist. Several authors argue that this core version of the DCT is vulnerable to an epistemological objection ...
Danaher, John
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2017 Western philosophers formulated ethical theories such as egoism, virtue, existentialism, deontology, contractualism and utilitarianism, and illustrated how these are applicable in benefitting individuals and societies in building a complete moral life ...
Abubakar Zaria Ibrahim
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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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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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