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PAINFULNESS, DESIRE, AND THE EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA [PDF]
American Philosophical Quarterly, 2018 Abstract The traditional desire view of painfulness maintains that pain sensations are painful because the subject desires that they not be occurring. A significant criticism of this view is that it apparently succumbs to a version of the Euthyphro Dilemma: the desire view, it is argued, is committed to an implausible answer to the ...
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Why Jim Joyce Wasn’t Wrong: Baseball and the Euthyphro Dilemma [PDF]
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 2015 In 2010, pitcher Armando Galarraga was denied a perfect game when umpire Jim Joyce called Jason Donald safe at first with two outs in the bottom of the 9th. In the numerous media discussions that followed, Joyce’s ‘blown’ call was commonly referred to as ‘mistaken’, ‘wrong’, or otherwise erroneous.
Amber L Griffioen
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There is no haecceitic Euthyphro problem [PDF]
Analysis, 2019 Jason Bowers and Meg Wallace have recently argued that those who hold that every individual instantiates a ‘haecceity’ are caught up in a Euthyphro-style dilemma when confronted with familiar cases of fission and fusion.
Skiles, Alexander
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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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Divine Command Theory – a critical reflections
Idei, 2018 The technological and cultural development of society brings urgent challenges of an interdisciplinary character that also exert an influence over the humanities. In the ethical discourse on current trends in moral reasoning, the metaethical theory known
Tibor Mahrik
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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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Crítica, 2018 This article analyzes the thesis of ethical relativism, as defended by Alchourrón and Bulygin (1983). These authors offer, on the one hand, a suggestive conception according to which the question “what are our obligations?” is equivalent to thinking ...
J. J. Moreso
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An Inconsistency in Craig’s Defence of the Moral Argument [PDF]
, 2012 I argue that William Craig’s defence of the moral argument is internally inconsistent. In the course of defending the moral argument, Craig criticizes non-theistic moral realism on the grounds that it posits the existence of certain logically necessary ...
Wielenberg, Erik J.
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Beyond Divine Command Theory: Moral realism in the Hebrew Bible
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009 Philosophical approaches to ancient Israelite religion are rare, as is metaethical reflection on the Hebrew Bible. Nevertheless, many biblical scholars and philosophers of religion tend to take it for granted that the biblical metaethical assumptions ...
Jaco W. Gericke
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Axiological entanglement of economics [PDF]
, 2017 In mainstream economics, the principle of freedom from value judgment (Wertfreiheit) is enforced. This principle has different interpretations. The aim of this paper is to present the author’s interpretations of the principle of Wertfreiheit.
Klimczak, Bożena
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