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Divine Command Ethics: A Causal Theory
2006Abstract What has God to do with human morality? According to divine command theories of ethics, his will determines, at least to some extent, its content. This general conception of the source of morality has distinguished historical antecedents.
Philip L Quinn, Christian B Miller
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Divine Command Theory Readings
2018This 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: since God only commands what is good, and since God commanded the annihilation of the Canaanites ...
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The muʿtazila's arguments against divine command theory
Religious Studies, 2021AbstractThe Muʿtazilī theologians, particularly the later Imāmī ones, developed numerous interesting arguments against divine command theory. The arguments, however, have not received the attention they deserve. Some of the arguments have been discussed in passing, and some have not been discussed at all.
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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.
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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.
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Is the divine command theory defensible?
Religious Studies, 1984Recent defences of the Divine Command Theory have ranged from those which attempt to meet objections half-way, and in the process transform the theory, to restatements and defences of the theory in its full rigour. Philip Quinn's Divine Commands and Moral Requirements is one of the latter.
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Divine Command Theory and Theistic Activism
The Heythrop Journal, 2012If the divine will is not subject to any principle, and God controls all truths including moral truths, morality will be arbitrary at the deepest level. It will not be possible to offer any explanation of why God has willed certain actions rather than their contraries.
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The Divine Command Theory of Mozi1
Asian Philosophy, 2006In this study, I will examine the famous ‘divine command theory’ of Mozi. Through the discussion of several important chapters of Mozi, including Fayi (law), Tianzhi (the will of heaven), Minggui (knowing the spirits) and Jianai (universal love), I attempt to clarify the arguments of Mozi offered in support of his distinctive ideas of serving heaven ...
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Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2023openaire +1 more source
Supervenience and property-identical divine-command theory
Religious Studies, 2004Property-identical divine-command theory (PDCT) is the view that being obligatory is identical to being commanded by God in just the way that being water is identical to being H2O. If these identity statements are true, then they express necessary a posteriori truths. PDCT has been defended in Robert M. Adams (1987) and William Alston (1990).
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Procedure, substance, and the divine command theory
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1994La theologie naturelle est toujours pratiquee comme si les conclusions theologiques pouvaient deriver d'un processus quasi-deductif. Il est possible que l'evidence conduise a des connaissances interessantes qui reclament cependant une explication theologique. L'A. demeure sceptique sur la valeur a priori des methodes de la theologie naturelle. Il prend
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