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Beyond Divine Command Theory: Moral realism in the Hebrew Bible [PDF]
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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, 2023 In this chapter, the author will expound and defend a divine command theory of meta-ethics. First, he explains and clarifies what a divine command theory is and is not, in order to distinguish it from common misunderstandings. Second, he outlines several
Matthew Flannagan
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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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Divine Command Theory and Moral Supervenience [PDF]
Philosophia Christi, 2016 Mark Murphy argues that the property identity version of divine command theory, coupled with the doctrine that God has freedom in commanding, violates the supervenience of the moral on the nonmoral.
McAllister, Blake
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, 1978 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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Divine Command Theory Readings
, 2018 This chapter presents what is arguably the most influential and widespread Christian approach to herem texts: the appeal to divine command theory to account for their counterintuitive morality. The structure of the argument is simple and straightforward:
Christian Hofreiter
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The Benefits of Divine Command Theory
This chapter provides an account of some of the advantages of a divine command theory of moral obligations. The chapter first clarifies the kind of view to be discussed by giving an account of what counts as a divine command, which is understood in an ...
C Stephen Evans
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Structure-Seeking and Divine Command Theory
, 2023 A study that examines possible relationships between structure-seeking and divine command ...
Matthew Stanley
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Value, Duty and the Divine: A Critique of Robert Adams' Divine-Based Axiology and a Defense of a Divine Command Theory of Moral Obligation. [PDF]
, 2016 In Robert Adams’ famous book, “Finite and Infinite Goods,” he proposes a moral value theory that is divine-based and explains moral goodness in terms of resemblance to God.
Spears, Elliot
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An Adamsian Theory of Moral Obligations but without Divine Commands [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 Theological Voluntarism is the view according to which certain moral properties or statuses have to be explained in terms of God’s commands, will, or other voluntary states of God.
Seyyed Abbas Kazemi Oskooei
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