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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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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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An Exploration of Metaphysical Grounding and Divine Command Theory
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 The concept of metaphysical grounding refers to a dependence relation—a relation between facts that is asymmetrical and non-causal. I aim to apply this concept to a Divine Command Theory (DCT) of moral obligations. Divine command theorists say that moral
Mileo Jesse
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Theocentrism Is Not Anthropocentric: An Enlightened Environmentalist Reading of The Bible
Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 2023 Theocentrism is the position that places God at the centre of discourse; God is the Landlord and Manager of everything that exists. Analogous to other environmental theories such as anthropocentrism, zoocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism and eco ...
Adeola Seleem Olaniyan
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Religions, 2023 Atheist moral philosopher Erik Wielenberg recently argued that Divine Command Theory is implausible as an explanation of objective morality because it fails to explain how psychopaths have moral obligations.
Adam Lloyd Johnson
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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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“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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Can God’s Goodness Save the Divine Command Theory from Euthyphro? [PDF]
, 2012 Recent defenders of the divine command theory like Adams and Alston have confronted the Euthyphro dilemma by arguing that although God’s commands make right actions right, God is morally perfect and hence would never issue unjust or immoral commandments.
Jeremy Koons, Koons, Jeremy
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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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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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