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Divine Command and Socratic Piety in the Euthyphro

Peitho, 2011
While Socrates was in his own way a deeply religious man, the Euthyphro is often thought to provide a refutation of the divine command theory of morality: the theory that what is morally good is good because it is divinely approved.
Glen Koehn
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How the Trinitarian God of Christianity Provides the Best Explanation for Objective Morality: Comparing the Metaethical Theories of James Sterba and Adam Lloyd Johnson

Religions
James Sterba recently presented arguments against theories which ground morality in God and attempted “to provide an account of the norms on which an ethics without God can be appropriately grounded ….” In particular, Sterba noted that “Robert Adams is ...
Adam Lloyd Johnson
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Is Ethics Possible Without God?

Religions
This essay defends the position that ethics must be grounded in God, where the notion of ‘God’ is understood as a transcendental source of normativity, though not necessarily a personal being who ‘commands’ moral behavior.
Whitley Kaufman
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Divine command theory and psychopathy

Religious Studies, 2018
AbstractI 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, no matter how evil, are morally permissible.
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Augustine on theosis and divine illumination as the theologic framework for decolonisation

Verbum et Ecclesia
This study examined the plausibility and role of theosis in Augustine’s theory of divine illumination as a theologic framework for decolonising theology. Theologic refers to God’s revelation about himself and his nature. Therefore, through an analysis of
Godfrey T. Baleng
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Religious Belief and Metaphysics

Religions
When Wittgenstein (2009, § 116) writes that “[w]hat we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use”, many will presumably read this is an anti-religious statement.
Hugo Strandberg
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Divine will/divine command moral theories and the problem of arbitrariness

Religious Studies, 2012
AbstractA well-known objection to divine will/divine command moral theories is that they commit us to the view that God's will is arbitrary. I argue that several versions of divine will/divine command moral theories, including two of Robert Adams's versions of the DCT and my own divine preference theory, can be successfully defended against this ...
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A Critique of the Neo-Platonist Theory of Moral Value

Religions
Divine Command Theory holds that what is morally right is what is commanded by God. This view faces a form of the Euthyphro dilemma: either God commands actions because they are right, in which case moral standards are independent of God, or actions are ...
Kai Michael Büttner, David Benjamin Dolby   +1 more
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Whether God Exists Is Irrelevant to Ethics

Religions
The question of whether ethics is possible without God is a non-issue. While many believe that without God, morality collapses, I contend that the existence or non-existence of God has no bearing on whether ethics is possible, whether moral truths exist,
David Kyle Johnson
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Mulla Ṣadrā's Moral Realism and its Effects on Pure Life [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: Moral realism means that moral values are real regardless of feelings and emotions, collective agreement, and the orders of anyone.
Hasan Mohiti Ardakan
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