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Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 2022 Critics of Divine Command Theory (DCT) have advanced the counterpossible terrible commands objection. They argue that DCT implies the counterpossible ‘If a necessarily morally perfect God commanded us to perform a terrible act, then the terrible act ...
Frederick Choo
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Divine Command Theory in Early Franciscan Thought: A Response to the Autonomy Objection
Studies in Christian Ethics, 2016 L. Schumacher
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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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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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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.
Koons, Jeremy
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Kant, Morality, and Hell [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper I argue that, although Kant argues that morality is independent of God (and hence, agrees with the Euthyphro), and rejects Divine Command Theory (or Theological Voluntarism), he believes that all moral duties are also the commands of God ...
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An Inconsistency in Craig’s Defence of the Moral Argument [PDF]
, 2012 I argue that William Craig’s defence of the moral argument is internally inconsistent. In the course of defending the moral argument, Craig criticizes non-theistic moral realism on the grounds that it posits the existence of certain logically necessary ...
Wielenberg, Erik J.
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Al-Kindi and Mu'tazila: Divine Attributes, Creation and Freedom [PDF]
, 2003 The paper discusses al-Kindi's response to doctrines held by contemporary theologians of the Mu‘tazilite school: divine attributes, creation, and freedom.
Adamson, Peter
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Religious Dietary Practices and Secular Food Ethics; or, How to Hope that Your Food Choices Make a Difference Even When You Reasonably Believe That They Don't [PDF]
, 2018 Religious dietary practices foster a sense of communal identity, certainly, but traditionally they are also regarded as pleasing to God (or the gods, or the ancestors) and spiritually beneficial.
Chignell, Andrew
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Philosophy East & West, 2019 :Both George Berkeley and Mozi display a tension in their moral philosophies between divine command theory and consequentialism. This essay argues that comparing the two philosophers can shed light on the relationship between certain philosophical ...
Michael Hemmingsen
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