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Divine Command and Socratic Piety in the Euthyphro [PDF]

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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Sanctity and sacredness: A commentary on Steve Clarke, 'The Sanctity of Life as a Sacred Value'. [PDF]

Bioethics, 2023
Bioethics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 40-41, January 2023.
Crisp R.
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THE EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA

Think, 2008
Is something good because God wills it, or does God will it because it is good? This lies at the heart of our debate on “Good without God”. Here Tim Mawson explains how he thinks the theist can solve it.
Mawson, Tim
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Euthyphro's "Dilemma", Socrates' Daimonion and Plato's God [PDF]

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2010
In this paper I start with the familiar accusation that divine command ethics faces a «Euthyphro dilemma». By looking at what Plato’s Euthyphro actually says, I argue that no such argument against divine-command ethics was Plato’s intention, and that, in any case, no such argument is cogent.
Chappell, Timothy, Timothy Chappell
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What Does it Mean to call God Good?

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 503-516, July 2023., 2023
Contemporary expositions of God's goodness commonly err either (1) by subjecting God to moral laws, which is to question His sovereignty, or (2) by failing to establish that God will always act in accordance with moral principles, which removes the theist's ability to appeal to God's goodness in response to problems of evil.
Philip Peter Sivyer
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Diversity and Moral Address

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 631-644, August 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT This article evaluates communicative approaches to responsibility within the Strawsonian tradition. These approaches consider reactive attitudes to be forms of moral address and consider responsiveness to moral address a condition on responsible agency. The article consists of a critical and a positive part.
Daphne Brandenburg
wiley   +1 more source

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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On Deontic Truth and Values

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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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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Idea: From Realism to Idealism [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana
This paper explores the origins of the dispute “realism or idealism,” which began in philosophy from Plato and Aristotle. Passing over early-modern and modern “isms” and various meanings of the term “idea,” deep in the past we discover the Proto-Indo ...
Piotr Jaroszyński
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