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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What if God commanded something horrible? A pragmatics-based defence of divine command metaethics [PDF]
, 2021 The objection of horrible commands claims that divine command metaethics is doomed to failure because it is committed to the extremely counterintuitive assumption that torture of innocents, rape, and murder would be morally obligatory if God commanded ...
Kremers, Philipp
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Against the New Logical Argument from Evil
Religions, 2023 Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking to give a theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented the term: the search for some ...
Daniel Rubio
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Modified Divine Command Theory: Robert Merrihew Adams on the Relation between Divine Command and Moral Obligation [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2016 Divine command theory is hitherto faced with some problems such as Euthyphro problem and moral arbitrariness. Robert Merrihew Adams tries to defend this theory by proposing a new form of it. He expresses that this theory can explain only moral obligation
Mahdi Ghafourian +2 more
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Religions, 2021 Divine engagement applies to a positive relationship with God in which people feel that God is close to them and answers their prayers. Divine disengagement pertains to an unsteady connection and a sense of God’s absence.
Małgorzata Szcześniak +9 more
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"... in God only one infinite act can be thought...": The Ambiguity of Divine Agency and the Diversity of Evil [PDF]
, 2015 The paper argues that God does not act but is creative activity, which helps to overcome evil by the possibilities of the good that it opens up for creatures in the face of ...
Dalferth, Ingolf U.
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God’s Goodness, Divine Purpose, and the Meaning of Life
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2022 The divine purpose theory (DPT)—according to which that human life is meaningful to the extent that it fulfills some purpose or plan to which God has directed us—encounters well-known Euthyphro problems.
J. Koons
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Divine Deception in Descartes’ Meditations [PDF]
, 2017 Descartes, Divine deception, First Meditation ...
Scribano, Emanuela
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Assessment of Mutakallimūn's Negative Common Views on Nature of Moral Goodness and Badness [PDF]
اخلاق وحیانی, 2023 What is moral goodness and moral badness? This is one of the most important questions in metaethics. Mu'tazila and Imami theologians have given different answers to this question, but their most frequent analysis of goodness and badness can be placed in ...
Taleqani SayyedAli, Hossein Rafiei
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Created goodness and the goodness of God: divine ideas and the possibility of creaturely value
Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 2021 Traditional theism says that the goodness of everything comes from God. Moreover, the goodness of something intrinsically valuable can only come from what has it.
Daniel D. Kemp
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