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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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Normative Reasons, Epistemic Autonomy, and Accountability to God

Religions, 2023
According to many, human autonomy is necessary for moral action and yet incompatible with being morally accountable to God’s divine commands. By issuing commands that ground normative facts, God demands our accountability without understanding our ...
Brandon Rickabaugh
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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,
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Virtue Depends on Natural Law and Divine Commands

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Virtue theory has occupied a place of relative prominence within the Christian intellectual tradition. But there is a problem facing it: how one contemplates the virtues and vices will ultimately depend upon deeper accounts of the good and the right ...
J. Caleb Clanton, Kraig Martin
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Can Ethics Exist Without God? A Thomistic Critique of James Sterba’s Axiomatic Morality

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This essay explores the question: can we have an objective ethics without God? This question is raised by James Sterba, who argues in the affirmative. As an atheistic ethicist, Sterba is motivated to maintain an objective morality that is not based in ...
Joseph Brian Huffling
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The Existence of God and the Efficacy of Morality [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015
In this paper, after a brief description of some common moral arguments for the existence of God, there is suggested a new argument entitled "necessity of the existence of a compensatory world or God for efficacy of morality". It is believed that in some
Masoud Sadeghi, Asadollah Azhir
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Does Darwall’s Morality of Accountability Require Moral Realism? (And Would It Be Strengthened by Adding God to the Story?)

Religions, 2021
Stephen Darwall has developed an account of moral obligations as grounded in “second-personal reasons,” which was developed in conversation with early modern “theological voluntarists” who were divine command theorists.
C. Stephen Evans
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Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness

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James Sterba has recently argued against Divine Command Theory (DCT). Sterba also offers, as a preferable alternative to DCT, a metaethical account which he has developed over a number of years (culminating in Sterba’s 2013 book), which attempts to ...
Daniel Molto
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Interpreting Hobbes’s Moral Theory: Rightness, Goodness, Virtue, and Responsibility

تأملات اخلاقی, 2021
The paper argues that the moral philosophy of Thomas Hobbes is unified by a complex conception of reason that imposes consistency norms of both rationality and reasonableness.
S. A. LLOYD
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God, Ethics, and Evolution: An Islamic Rejoinder to Sterba’s Moral Critique

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This paper engages with James Sterba’s arguments from an Islamic theological perspective, particularly drawing on the Mu‘tazilite tradition. It focuses on three central themes: (1) the position of God in the face of horrendous evils, (2) the relationship
Elif Nur Balci
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