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Taking God Seriously, but Not Too Seriously: The Divine Command Theory and William James' 'The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life’ [PDF]

, 2013
While some scholars neglect the theological component to William James’s ethical views in “The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life,” Michael Cantrell reads it as promoting a divine command theory (DCT) of the foundations of moral obligation.
Boone, Mark J.
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Euthyphro's "Dilemma", Socrates' Daimonion and Plato's God

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.
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Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Can’? And Did Kant Think It Does? [PDF]

, 2004
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it is argued that while the principle of ‘ought implies can’ is certainly plausible in some form, it is tempting to misconstrue it, and that this has happened in the way it has been taken up in some of the ...
Stern, R.
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Skeptical Fideism in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum [PDF]

, 2019
The work of Richard H. Popkin both introduced the concept of skeptical fideism and served to impressively document its importance in the philosophies of a diverse range of thinkers, including Montaigne, Pascal, Huet, and Bayle.
Ribeiro, Brian
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Moral Experience: Its Existence, Describability, and Significance [PDF]

, 2020
One of the newest research areas in moral philosophy is moral phenomenology: the dedicated study of the experiential dimension of moral mental life. The idea has been to bring phenomenological evidence to bear on some central issues in metaethics and ...
Kriegel, Uriah
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Swinburne on the Euthyphro Dilemma. Can Supervenience Save Him?

Forum Philosophicum, 2008
Modern philosophers normally either reject the „divine command theory” of ethics and argue that moral duties are independent of any commands, or make it dependent on God's commands but like Robert Adams modify their theory and identify moral duties in terms of the commands of a loving God. Adams regards this theory as metaphysically necessary. That is,
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Legein to What End? [PDF]

, 2019
In the 5th century a number of sophists challenged the orthodox understanding of morality and claimed that practicing injustice was the best and most profitable way for an individual to live.
Anderson, Merrick
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Auslegung: A journal of philosophy, volume 18, number 1 (winter, 1992) book reviews [PDF]

, 1992
Review of Robert Cummins's "Meaning and Mental Representation"; Richard Wolin's "The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Iledegger"; David Ingram's "Critical Theory and Philosophy"; Trudy Govier's "God, The Devil And The Perfect Pizza ...
Staff, Editorial
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Scepticism about Scepticism [PDF]

, 2015
Skeptical arguments are intuitively gripping. Or at least they seem to be. They readily capture the imagination and curiosity of beginners in philosophy. The arguments are easy to state but seemingly impossible to answer.
Zangwill, Nick
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Seriousness, Irony, and Cultural Politics: A Defense of Jorge Portilla [PDF]

, 2013
This essay discusses Jorge Portilla’s phenomenological analysis of values and freedom in his essay, “The Phenomenology of Relajo.” Portilla argues that genuine freedom requires seriousness and sincerity; it requires wholehearted participation in cultural
Gallegos, Francisco
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