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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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Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 2022 The study aimed primarily to examine the relationship between Allah centeredness and moral disengagement. The second aim of the study was to examine the relationship of both variables with demographic variables such as gender and, age, and marital and ...
Nurgül Bulut +2 more
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An African religious ethics and the Euthyphro problem
Acta Academica, 2017 Supposing that an African metaphysics grounded on the notion and/or value of vitality is true, can it do a better job in terms of informing an African religious ethics than its Western counterparts, specifically, the Divine Command theory (DCT)?
Motsamai Molefe
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"Lean not on your own understanding": Belief that morality is founded on divine authority and non-utilitarian moral judgments [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 Recent research has shown that religious individuals are much more resistant to utilitarian modes of thinking than their less religious counterparts, but the reason for this is not clear.
Jared Piazza, Justin F. Landy
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Aquinas and Scotus on the Metaphysical Foundations of Morality
Religions, 2019 This paper retraces some of the contrast between Aquinas and Scotus with respect to the metaphysical foundations of morality in order to highlight how subtle differences pertaining to the relationship between the divine will and the divine intellect can ...
J. Caleb Clanton, Kraig Martin
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A Study and Explanation of the Theory of General Justice in the View of St. Thomas Aquinas [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 General Justice is a virtue that leads people to the community order and goods through which they can achieve well-being. This article explains the theory of general justice from the perspective of Aquinas and examines the common good and its role as the
Abdollah Abedifar, Mohsen Javadi
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In situ molecular organization and heterogeneity of the Legionella Dot/Icm T4SS
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present a nearly complete in situ model of the Legionella Dot/Icm type IV secretion system, revealing its central secretion channel and identifying new components. Using cryo‐electron tomography with AI‐based modeling, our work highlights the structure, variability, and mechanism of this complex nanomachine, advancing understanding of bacterial ...
Przemysław Dutka +11 more
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Mediated Morality as a Middle Position in Understanding the Relation between God and Morality
Religions, 2023 How should we understand the relation between God and morality? This article aims to address this question by constructing a theistic metaethical theory informed by postphenomenological mediation theory. According to postphenomenological mediation theory,
Amund Tobias Måge Areklett +1 more
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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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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee +3 more
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