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Sterba’s Argument from Evil and Objections to Divine Command Theory
ReligionsThis paper will respond to James Sterba’s paper “An Ethics without God That is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution”. In his paper, Sterba argues that God cannot be the source of morality.
Caleb Cumberland
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What is a Merciful Heart? Affective-Motivational Aspects of the Second Love Command [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, I argue that Christ’s second love command implies not only that people’s volitions and actions be Christ-like, but also that their affective-motivational dispositions be Christ-like. More specifically, I argue that the command implies that
Vitz, Rico
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The Dark Side of Morality: Group Polarization and Moral Epistemology [PDF]
, 2019 This article argues that philosophers and laypeople commonly conceptualize moral truths or justified moral beliefs as discoverable through intuition, argument, or some other purely cognitive or affective process.
Arvan, Marcus
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.KHS‐Cnd peptide is able to impair biofilm formation and disaggregate mature biofilms in Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates. Differences in extracellular metabolites reflect changes in biofilm metabolism due to KHS‐Cnd treatment. Among the differentially represented extracellular metabolites upon KHS‐Cnd treatment, the significantly altered ...
Fernando Porcelli +9 more
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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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Mishpat Ivri, Halakhah and Legal Philosophy: Agunah and the Theory of “Legal Sources" [PDF]
, 2001 In this paper, I ask whether mishpat ivri (Jewish Law) is appropriately conceived as a “legal system”. I review Menachem Elon’s use of a “Sources” Theory of Law (based on Salmond) in his account of Mishpat Ivri; the status of religious law from the ...
Jackson, Bernard S.
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.ERα splice variant ERα∆7 lacks the C‐terminus, and its expression may change phenotypes of breast cancers. Our results showed that ERα∆7 is found in the luminal A subtype, and elevated ERα∆7 levels are linked to improved cell survival with lower proliferation and migration.
Long Wai Tsui +10 more
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Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness
ReligionsJames 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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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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