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| | Divine command theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Likewise, if divine command theorists claim that "good" means the same as "commanded by God", then Moore will object, on the grounds that "this is commanded by God, but is it good?" is a perfectly meaningful question. | | | For example, John Gay argued that god had commanded us to promote human happiness, thus marrying divine command theory with a version of utilitarianism. | | | Thus, for example, that murder is wrong is a necessary truth, and though God commanded us not to murder He couldn't have done otherwise, nor can he revoke his command; keeping the Sabbath day holy, on the other hand, is only contingently wrong, and god could have commanded otherwise, and could revoke his command. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_command_theory
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| | The Euthyphro Dilemma is a rebuttal to the divine command theory. | | | The divine command theory is a metaethical theory which claims moral values are whatever is commanded by a god or gods. | | | *The Divine command theory">Divine command theory of ethics |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/d/divine-command-theory.htm
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| | The Problem of Abhorrent Commands |
| | If the divine command theorist is to pursue this strategy, then, then he will need to be able to explain how it is consistent with divine omnipotence. | | | This thought experiment--”What if God were to command such acts?”--therefore seems to show that divine command theory is false. | | | The second danger is that the first response to the problem of abhorrent commands might contradict other central points of doctrine to which the divine command theorist is permitted. |
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http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/abhorrentcommands.html
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| | Linda Zagzebski - Divine Motivation Theory - Reviewed by John Hare, Yale University - Philosophical Reviews - ... |
| | Such a move makes divine motives more basic than the divine will even in divine command theory.' The fourth advantage is supposed to be that divine motivation theory makes central use of the Incarnation, and I have already mentioned the difficulty with this view. | | | The third advantage is purportedly that divine command theory needs a reason for God to will the good, since 'the will, according to Aquinas, always chooses "under the aspect of good," which means that reasons are not inherent in the will itself' (p. | | | There is one more topic I want to discuss briefly, since I am a divine command theorist and divine motivation theory is argued to have five significant advantages over divine command theory. |
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http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1921
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| | What Makes Morality Moral? |
| | The divine command theory is to be applauded for recognizing that some commands are rooted in God's power, but is deficient in that it roots the binding force of all commands in the power of God to declare them as such. | | | The Divine Command theory is adequate to explain the nature of some of God's commands, but not all. | | | That God's commands change is evident from a comparison of the Mosaic and New Covenant. |
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http://www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/divinecommand.htm
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| | PlanetPapers - Euthyphro: Conflicts in the Divine Command Theory |
| | Either a good action simply is whatever God commands, in which case there is the possibility that God might command us to kill or pillage; or there are some limits on what God can legitimately command, in which case they aren’t genuine divine commands any longer since there are independent limits on God’s commands. | | | However, divine command theories do not strongly correspond with all religions. | | | Consequently, these no longer seem to be divine command theories, that is, they no longer maintain that actions are good solely because God commands them. |
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http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/4361.php
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| | Theological Voluntarism |
| | But the name ‘divine command theory’ is a bit misleading: what these views have in common is their appeal to the divine will; while many of these views hold that the relevant act of divine will is that of commanding, some deny it. | | | And if these commands are not themselves reasons for action, then God does not constitutively actualize reasons for action by His commands; and if God does not constitutively actualize reasons for action by His commands, then God is not authoritative. | | | In the possible world in which God issues a command to φ, there is a moral state of affairs — its being obligatory to φ — which lacks a justification (for the action is subsumed under no other divine command) and is not necessary (for God might have failed to command the action). |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voluntarism-theological
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| | Divine Command Theory: I Can't Make You Worship Me :: Ephilosopher :: Philosophy News, Research and Philosophical ... |
| | On the other hand, many theists endorse the Divine Command Theory, according to which the difference between moral rightness and wrongness is simply that the former is that which is commanded by God, while the latter is that which is prohibited by God. | | | The abstract reads: "This paper argues that Divine Command Theory is inconsistent with the veiw, held by many theists, that we have a moral obligation to worship God." The full article is here: divine command theory. | | | However, as we shall argue, theists cannot consistently hold both of these views; for the Divine Command Theory implies that it is not morally obligatory to worship God." |
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http://www.ephilosopher.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=724
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| | Divine Command Theory |
| | The Divine command theory (hereafter: DCT) is a theory of ethics. | | | It states that the difference between right and wrong is simply that the former is that which has been commanded by God (or the gods), while the latter is that which has been prohibited by God. | | | And God does not command the destruction of that which... |
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http://www.wikiverse.org/divine-command-theory
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| | HU329 NOTES ON THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY |
| | Argument for the Divine Command theory - 1. | | | Therefore, the Divine Command theory is not true. | | | If the Divine Command theory is true, then we should always obey God's commands, no matter what they are. |
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http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~tlockha/hu329ov2.htm
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| | Philosoraptor |
| | Consequently, you are not a divine command theorist. | | | The divine command theory of ethics, however, is not the same as biblical theology, even though there are obvious connections. | | | A theist who is not a divine command theorist believes that right acts are right for some reason other than God's commanding them. |
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http://philosoraptor.blogspot.com/2005/04/new-pope-liberalism-relativism.html
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| | objectiveethics |
| | It is important to see that the rejection of the divine command theory is not the same as the rejection of belief in God. | | | If God's command is sufficient to justify any action as good, then God could command me to make it my chief end in life to inflict suffering on other human beings. | | | The second question serves to point out that, according to the first version of the divine command theory, God serves only as a reliable conveyor of ethical truth but not the ultimate source of ethical truth. |
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http://faculty.mc3.edu/barmstro/objectiveethics1.html
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| | index112DIV |
| | This result is inevitable if the divine command theory is accepted because the theory implies that moral truth is a subcategory of religious truth; and since faith provides a perfectly appropriate route to religious truth, it must lead also to moral truth. | | | That is, we will consider whether the divine command theory conforms to moral data and, in doing so, we will assume that the divinity to which the theory refers is a person who is perfectly moral, omniscient, and omnipotent. | | | A point that needs emphasizing at the outset is that the divine command theory is a philosophical theory and not a piece of religious doctrine. |
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http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~montague/index112DIVCOM.html
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| | Divine Command Theory |
| | However the divine command theorist answers this question, unacceptable consequences seem to arise. | | | There are several reasons for theists to be divine command theorists. | | | The consistent message of the Bible is that we should obey God’s commands. |
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http://www.moralphilosophy.info/divinecommandtheory.html
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| | BigHominid's Hairy Chasms |
| | Divine command theory is often thought to be refuted by an argument known as the Euthyphro dilemma. | | | This is clearly inconsistent with divine command theory; the divine command theorist must give the second answer to the Euthyphro dilemma. | | | Suppose we were to grant (just for the sake of argument) that the divine command theory is correct, so that actions are right just because they are commanded by God. |
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http://bighominid.blogspot.com/2005/05/divine-command-theory.html
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| | The Unsound Argument » Divine Command Theory |
| | He then goes on to argue for the Divine Command Theory for ethics, with the divine command coming from the Christian God, via the Bible. | | | In the Divine Command Theory, the objective set of rules that make up ethics are the commands of a specific deity or set of deities. | | | Given that there is a God and that the rules that one attributes to Him are in fact the rules that He has set forth, Divine Command Theory is quite a valid ethical theory. |
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http://unsoundargument.com/category/divine-command-theory
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| | Divine Command Theory |
| | On DCT the only thing that makes an act morally wrong is that God prohibits doing it, and all that it means to say that torture is wrong is that God prohibits torture. | | | While DCT takes the the first route, Euthyphro takes the last one: If a good God prohibits torture he does so because torture is intrinsicly wrong, not merely because he declares torture to be wrong by fiat. | | | Library: Modern Documents: Theism: Arguments for the Existence of a God: Divine Command Theory |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/divine.html
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| | The Divine Command Theory of Ethics |
| | The argument is called the Divine Command Theory of Ethics, and asserts that morality cannot be evaluated apart from God, and that "good" is by definition what God says is good, and "evil" is by definition whatever God says is evil. | | | At this point, practically everyone understands that the Divine Command theory of ethics is absurd. | | | The Bible itself also clearly refutes the Divine Command theory. |
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http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/stories/2003/01/20/theDivineCommandTheoryOfEthics.html
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| | Morality Requires God ... or Does It? [Free Republic] |
| | That an agnostic should find this theory suspect is obvious, for, if one doesn't believe in God or if one is unsure which God is the true God, being told that one must do as God commands will not help one solve any moral dilemmas. | | | The fact that Leibniz rejects the Divine Command Theory is significant, for he is one of the most committed theists in the Western intellectual tradition. | | | Moreover, to believe that God could have commanded these things is to destroy whatever grounds one might have for praising or worshiping him. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3999da7b1a3a.htm
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| | As a normative theory, the divine command theory is difficult to maintain given the epistemological problems of accessing the will of God. | | | This final version of the divine command theory is the most controversial, and has been criticized from several angles. | | | Nevertheless, his arguments show the reasons which might incline a theist to adopt the divine command theory. |
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http://www.webspawner.com/users/cedar/moraltheory.html
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| | To reject Premiss 1 is to abandon the Divine Command Theory. | | | Philip Quinn (2000: 70-71) answers that the Divine Command Theory does indeed entail that torturing an innocent child to death would be made morally right by God's commanding it. | | | Actually, Quinn (2000: 54-57) prefers to explicate the Divine Command Theory in terms of God's 'antecedent intentions', rather than in terms of God's commands. |
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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/journals/analysis/preprints/HOOKER.html
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| | Divine Command Theory |
| | Even if the Divine Command Theory is correct, it would not necessarily follow that the will of God could be known in such a way that it could guide moral deliberations outside the limits of specific religious communities. | | | Click here for a religious argument that uses a version of the divine command theory against the reliance on religious assumptions in public sphere ethics. | | | Even if the divine being exists, He may have expressed his will in more than one scripture. |
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http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/320/320dct.htm
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| | Institutional Research |
| | The Torah, the Bible, and the Qur’an are examples of what in divine command | | | Based on divine command theory, why are the opinions of people basically | | | What major problems are associated with divine command theory, according to |
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http://www.bemidjistate.edu/InstRes/Studysheet.htm
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| | Phil 308G: God and Morality |
| | Cudworth's argument showed us that there is pressure on a version of the Divine Command Theory to say that God's commanding us not to do something is just what it is for it to be wrong, or what "wrong" means. | | | Philip Quinn is a recent advocate of theological voluntarism, also called the Divine Command Theory, which is the first important view about the connection between God and morality that we will look at in detail. | | | Ralph Cudworth advanced a very important argument against the Divine Command Theory in the 17th century. |
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http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mschroed/godandmorality
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| | Philosophy of Religion Assignments |
| | Explain and evaluate either one of the arguments in favor of the Divine Command Theory, as given by Quinn, or against it, as given by Nielsen. | | | (NB: the password is my last name plus the course number, with no spaces.) Also read the IEP summary of divine command theory and some criticisms of it, and the Euthyphro objection to the divine command theory. | | | Explain and evaluate the "Euthyphro" objection to the divine command theory. |
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http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~okeefets/religion01-assignments.html
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| | Divine Command and Natural Law |
| | Note that you can believe in the existence of God, and believe we should do what God commands us to do, but still reject Divine Command as a justification for fundamental moral principles. | | | If it's right because God commands it, then right is arbitrary and could change at any time. | | | But in that case we use our moral values to judge the truth of revelation, not vice versa as Divine Command requires. |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~janderso/101/divine.html
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| | PHL100: Euthyphro Argument and Divine Command Theory |
| | 1287-1347) is an example of a later philosopher who advocated what later became known as "divine command theory": the view that the good is what God commands or wills. | | | To reject it is not to reject theism, but rather to reject that the good is dependent upon God's current will. | | | No less a theologian than St. Thomas Aquinas rejected divine command theory. |
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http://www.oswego.edu/~delancey/100_DIR/100_LECTURES/16_Euthyphro.html
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| | Divine Command Ethics |
| | If you don't have to tell what God commands to tell what's right, then (B) is of no practical value. | | | If (B), then if God were to command something terrible, it would be right. | | | Three possible views, all versions of the divine command theory of ethics: |
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http://www.courses.rochester.edu/wierenga/REL111/!dct.html
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| | Lecture outline: Quinn's Divine Command Theory |
| | Lecture outline: Quinn's defense of "divine command" theory | | | knowledge by first getting knowledge of God's commands. | | | --Why does this favor the divine command theory? |
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http://www.isu.edu/~skidjame/101divinecommand.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion |
| | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Theological Voluntarism - Survey of divine command theory by Mark Murphy. | | | Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania: Leading Scientists Still Reject God - Article by Donald Simanek considering the current theory that scientists are finding "evidence" allowing for God. | | | Kluwer Academic Publishers: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Independent journal concerned with the exposition, development, and criticism of theories relevant to religion in any form. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Philosophy_of_Religion
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| | Divine Command Theory |
| | Why is the proponent of the Divine Command Theory committed to the Truth-Making Answer to the Original Euthyphro Question? | | | Consider an abbreviation of the second version of the Divine Command Theory: | | | (1) An act A is (morally) right ó [just in case] God commands us to do A (in the relevant circumstances). |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/wtalbott/phil240/trdivine.htm
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| | S: Then all you have shown me is a feature of ‘holiness’, namely, that all holy things are loved by the Gods. | | | Reasons to think D.C.T. is not defensible: Which God do these commands come from? | | | Version 2: The Divine Index version of D.C.T. God commands us to do the morally right thing in all circumstances because it is the right thing to do. |
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http://instruct.uwo.ca/philosophy/201g/week4.doc
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| | Divine Command Theory |
| | Existence of different religions creates a problem for this theory as a basis for ethics in a pluralistic society. | | | A point for believers in this theory to consider: |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/phil/gtropea_mat/Moral_reason_PPP/sld019.htm
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| | Outline: Euthyphro and Divine Command Theory |
| | The holy is a matter of "expertise in sacrifice and prayer" | | | --Divine command theory as an account of right/wrong action: the rightness or wrongness |
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http://www.isu.edu/~skidjame/euthyphro.html
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| | Just War Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The issues that arise from this principle include the morality of obeying orders (for example, when one knows those orders to be immoral), as well as the status of ignorance (not knowing of the effects of one’s actions). | | | The foregoing has described the main tenets of the just war theory, as well as some of the problems that it entails. | | | A few of those practicalities have been mentioned here. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/j/justwar.htm
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| | Divine Command as the Foundation of Morality |
| | In the seventeenth century Hugo Grotius rejected the theory in a much-quoted passage: | | | The antecedents of this passage were traced in H.R. Chroust, " ", | | | It has sometimes been suggested (though as I will argue below not as often as people think) that the reason why we ought to obey the rules of morality is that they are commandments of God. |
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http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y67mor.html
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| | Christian Divine Command Theory |
| | The Divine Command Theory took its place as a force to be reckoned with in the circle of moral theories as a result of the triumph of Christianity over Rome and the assumption of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving God, the creator of all things. | | | Suppose God command us to love our neighbors, should we do it because God commands it or because what God commands is right? | | | Divine law commands us to love God and our neighbors. |
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http://members.aol.com/chinwuba78/christ.htm
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| | THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY |
| | Wrong), then there is something about murder that God dislikes, but this something is a part of murder, and independent of God. | | | If (DCT), then there is NO reason God dislikes murder, He just does. | | | Context: Euthyphro is going to turn his father in for “murdering a slave.” This is morally wrong, according to Euthyphro, because the gods say so (DCT) |
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http://commhum.mccneb.edu/dweber/Help/DCT.htm
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| | Moral Arguments |
| | The standard objection to the divine command theory of ethics, discussed elsewhere on this site, shows that the objectivity of ethics cannot be grounded in God. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/moral.html
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| | Natural Law Theory |
| | There is way of living that is in accordance with human nature, this kind of natural law theory holds, and morality prescribes that we live such a life. | | | This form of natural law theory is particularly associated with Thomas Aquinas. | | | This association is not necessary, however, and even goes against the views of some natural law theorists, including Aristotle himself. |
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http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/naturallawtheory.html
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| | Parableman: Divine Command Theory |
| | Andrew Cullison has some worthwhile reading on Divine Command Theory at the Rochester blog. | | | (Some people have argued that Philosophy from the 617 was the first, but that was a group blog from people who at the time were in Boston, not tied to one institution.) Andrew Cullison has some worthwhile reading on Divine Command Theory at the Rochester blog. | | | I've said stuff about this before, but my primary audience was for introductory philosophy students. |
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http://parablemania.ektopos.com/archives/2004/04/divine_command.html
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