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Leibniz, Acosmism, and Incompossibility [PDF]
, 2016 Leibniz claims that God acts in the best possible way, and that this includes creating exactly one world. But worlds are aggregates, and aggregates have a low degree of reality or metaphysical perfection, perhaps none at all.
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Social construction and meta‐ground
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 954-973, November 2025.Abstract The notion of social construction plays an important role in many areas of social philosophy, including the philosophy of gender and sex, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of disability. Yet it is far from clear how this notion is to be understood.
Asya Passinsky
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A Critique of the Neo-Platonist Theory of Moral Value
ReligionsDivine Command Theory holds that what is morally right is what is commanded by God. This view faces a form of the Euthyphro dilemma: either God commands actions because they are right, in which case moral standards are independent of God, or actions are ...
Kai Michael Büttner +1 more
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The evolutionary explanation: the limits of the desire theories of unpleasantness, [PDF]
, 2018 Several theorists have defended that unpleasantness can be explained by appealing to (intrinsic, simultaneous, de re) desires for certain experiences not to be occurring. In a nutshell, experiences are unpleasant because we do not want them, and not vice
Sapien, Abraham
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Polytheism and the Euthyphro [PDF]
, 2016 In this reading of the Euthyphro, Socrates and Euthyphro are seen less in a primordial conflict between reason and devotion, than as sincere Hellenic polytheists engaged in an inquiry based upon a common intuition that, in addition to the irreducible ...
Butler, Edward P.
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Michael Smith and the daleks: reason, morality, and contingency [PDF]
, 1999 Smith has defended the rationalist's conceptual claim that moral requirements are categorical requirements of reason, arguing that no status short of this would make sense of our taking these requirements as seriously as we do.
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Crítica, 2017 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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In Defence of the Epistemological Objection to Divine Command Theory [PDF]
, 2019 Divine command theories come in several different forms but at their core all of these theories claim that certain moral statuses exist in virtue of the fact that God has commanded them to exist. Several authors argue that this core version of the DCT is
Danaher, John
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The Holy and the God-Loved: The Dilemma in Plato’sEuthyphro
The Monist, 2022 AbstractIs the holy holy because the gods love it or do the gods love it because it is holy? On the basis of this dilemma Plato works out the manifold and complex relationship between God and Morality in his dialogue Euthyphro. This dialogue not only plays a central role within Plato’s work on the question of the relationship between ethics and ...
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Diagnosing ideal world objections
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1018-1036, November 2025.
Caleb Perl
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