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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 ...
Brady, Michael S.
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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
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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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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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The Euthyphro Dilemma and Utilitarianism [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper I reexamine the Euthyphro dilemma to determine the principles underlying its critique of divine command theory. From this analysis, I claim that the Euthyphro dilemma can be fruitfully applied to other systems of ethics.
Taylor, Mark
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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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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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EUTHYPHRON İKİLEMİNİN İŞARET ETTİĞİ BAZI AHLÂKÎ AÇMAZLAR

Felsefe Dünyası, 2021
Bu makale Antik dönemde Platon’un dile getirdiği, “Euthyphron Dilemması” olarak bilinen, ahlâkın kaynağının ne olduğu tartışmasını kendine başlangıç noktası yapmıştır: “Acaba Tanrı, bir eylemi ahlâkî açıdan doğru (veya iyi) olduğu için mi emretmiştir ...
Mustafa Çakmak
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