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The Relevance of God to Metaethics

Religions
I argue in this paper that moral realism is more likely to be true if God exists than if God does not exist. I will first argue that, without the existence of God, objective moral facts would be queer, but that the queerness problem is solved if God ...
Luke Taylor
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Judaism and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Towards A New Approach

TheoLogica, 2018
This article attempts to utilize representative talmudic source-material that bears on the Euthyphro dilemma, and more widely, that discusses the central role of human agency in the foundations of Jewish law, in order to sketch a modified version of ...
Alex Sztuden
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Sokoto Caliphate scholars and the classical Islamic philosophers: issues in divine command theory of ethics

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2017
Western philosophers formulated ethical theories such as egoism, virtue, existentialism, deontology, contractualism and utilitarianism, and illustrated how these are applicable in benefitting individuals and societies in building a complete moral life ...
Abubakar Zaria Ibrahim
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In Defence of the Epistemological Objection to Divine Command Theory [PDF]

Sophia, 2017
Divine command theories (DCTs) come in several different forms but at their core all of these theories claim that certain moral statuses (most typically the status of being obligatory) exist in virtue of the fact that God has commanded them to exist. Several authors argue that this core version of the DCT is vulnerable to an epistemological objection ...
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Religion and morality: paradoxes of interdependence

Антиномии, 2018
The article examines varieties of the correlation of religion and morality in European and Russian social thought within the Christian paradigm. A diversity of definitions of religion in the research literature is observed; special attention is paid to ...
Elena A. Stepanova
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Divine Command Theory in the Passage of History

Forum Philosophicum, 2009
Are actions that are morally good, morally goosd because God makes them so (e.g., by commanding them)? Or does God urge humans to do them because they are morally good anyway? What is, in general, the relationship between divine commands and ethical duties?
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Can a Darwinian be a Christian? Ethical Issues

Zygon, 2000
A brief historical overview shows the main Christian claims aboutmorality and proper conduct, looking at questions about both prescriptions (‘normative ethics’) and foundations (‘metaethics’).
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Divine Command Theory – Potentiality and Limits

Journal of Education Culture and Society
Thesis. Divine Command Theory (hereafter DCT) is a metaethical theory belonging to the category of moral realism of the non-cognitive type, whose popularity is growing. In this thesis, we show some of the reasons that have triggered the need to address the normativity of ethical concepts, because of which DCT receives its justification. Concept.
Tibor Máhrik, Roman Kralik
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An Egyptian Ethicist

American Journal of Islam and Society
The sources shaping a moral theory range from “reason” to “societal command” to “religious texts.” The prominence and relationship between these sources is contingent upon the ethicists’ approaches and inquiries.
Ossama Abdelgawwad
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The Notions of Obtainable Politics in the light of Quran

الإيضاح, 2016
It is generally believed that the contemporary world of academia is divided between Divine and non-Divine philosophies. By considering the Divine theory in accordance to the human behavior, advocates of theory take it in the best interest of mankind ...
Dr. Hafiz Nasiruddin, Dr. Muhammad Rizwan   +1 more
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