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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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Divine command theory and psychopathy [PDF]
, 2020 I advance a novel challenge for Divine Command Theory based on the existence of psychopaths. The challenge, in a nutshell, is that Divine Command Theory has the implausible implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations and hence their evil acts,
Wielenberg, Erik J.
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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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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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The divine command theory and objective good [PDF]
, 1984 I reply to criticisms of the divine command theory with an eye to noting the relation of ethics to an ontological ground. The criticisms include: the theory makes the standard of right and wrong arbitrary, it traps the defender of the theory in a ...
Reichenbach, Bruce R.
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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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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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