A Christological Critique of Divine Command Theory
This paper presents a theological critique of divine command theory, a metaethical theory stating that moral wrongness is constituted by God’s command.
Martin Jakobsen
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Thomistic Divine Simplicity and its Analytic Detractors; Can one affirm Divine Aseity and Goodness without Simplicity? [PDF]
I evaluate three of the most widespread analytic objections to the doctrine of divine simplicity: that it fails to cohere with the application of accidental predicates like ‘creator’ or ‘lord’ to God, problematically entails that God is identical to an ...
Jared Michelson Honorary Lecturer
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Interpreting Hobbes’s Moral Theory: Rightness, Goodness, Virtue, and Responsibility [PDF]
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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Divine Self‐Disclosure in Filial Values: The Problem of Guided Goodness
This article’s main thesis is that divine self-disclosure to humans is best understood in terms of manifested filial values with a distinctive moral intention aimed at cultivating righteousness.
Paul K. Moser
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A Dilemma for Theistic Non-Naturalism
Non-naturalism is the view that there are sui generis, non-natural moral properties. This paper poses a dilemma for theists who accept this view. Either God explains why non-moral properties make sui generis, non-natural moral properties obtain, or God ...
St.John Lambert
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Explanation of Robert Adams's View of the Theory of the Divine Commond and Ash'arites Divine Command [PDF]
The theory of the divine command is one of the main theories of the philosophy of ethics, which discusses religion and its relationship with morality, the good and bad of actions, divine command and prohibition, and other moral issues.
Abdollah Asadi +3 more
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Assessment of Imamī and Mu'tazilī Common Views on Nature of Moral Goodness and Badness and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Role [PDF]
Many Muslim theologians have examined the nature of moral goodness and badness when discussing divine actions. In the meantime, most of them have defined moral goodness and badness on the basis of other concepts that considered more basic.
Taleqani SayyedAli, Hossein Rafiei
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Interpretation of Symbols, Veneration and Divine Attributes in Dieng Temple Complex, Central Java
This study aims to discuss the divine symbols and attributes used as a medium of worship in the Dieng Plateau. The research was phased in according to Wallace's empirical cycle and was conducted in the Dieng Plateau, Central Java, Indonesia, a spiritual ...
Ni Kadek Surpi +3 more
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Constructive Comparative Philosophy of Religion: Translations of Christianity and Islam and a Case Study of Ibn Tufayl and Ralph Cudworth [PDF]
We point out how some Christian-Muslim comparative philosophies of religion may be enhanced with certain translations or interpretations of Christianity: a modalist view of the trinity and a high Christology.
Charles Taliaferro, Christophe Porot
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This paper provides an analysis of James Sterba’s argument from evil in the world and the author’s Thomistic counterargument. Many authors of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion discuss the concept of “horrendous evils”, which is a ...
Patrik Hrmo
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