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Two recent metaphysical divine command theories of ethics

Robert Westmoreland

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 39 (1):15 - 31 (1996)

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Dobroć (Boga - Goodness of God).Marek Pepliński - 2016 - In Janusz Salamon (ed.), Przewodnik po filozofii religii. Nurt analityczny, Kraków 2016. Wydawnictwo WAM. pp. 121-40.details The paper presents some historical (Plato, Aristotle, Plotin, Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas) and main contemporary topics about different accounts of goodness of God understood as ontological goodness, perfection and as ethical goodness - impeccability and benevolence. The arguments for goodness of God are presented, mainly from stance of Thomas Aquinas classical theism as well as arguments against compatibility of essential goodness and omnipotence (N. Pike) and being an moral agent. The article draws perspective of different philosophical issues connected with goodness of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
(1 other version)Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander.Robert Bass - 2023 - Journal of Value Inquiry 1:733-751.details Recent divine command theorists make a serious and impressive case that a sophisticated divine command theory has significant metaethical advantages and can adequately meet traditional objections, such as the Euthyphro problem. I survey the attempt sympathetically with a view to explaining how the divine command theory can deal with traditional objections while delivering on metaethical desiderata, such as providing an account of ethical objectivity. I argue, however, that to the extent that a divine command theory succeeds, an ideal observer theory (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
(1 other version)Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander.Robert Bass - 2024 - Journal of Value Inquiry 58 (4):733-751.details If there are to be plausible versions of a divine command theory (DCT), they must deal with the Euthyphro problem and its relatives. I argue that attempts (Robert Adams's, for example) to immunize the DCT from Euthyphro-style objections end up conceding all the metaethical machinery needed to secure the DCT's advantages without presupposing the existence of a God. Download Export citation Bookmark
Al-ghazālī's divine command theory.Shoaib Ahmed Malik - 2021 - Journal of Religious Ethics 49 (3):546-576.details This article reviews al‐Ghazālī's conception of Divine Command Theory (DCT) in light of contemporary philosophical developments. There are two well‐known objections against DCT. These include the problem of arbitrariness (PoA), which states that God randomly chose our moral framework for no reason given His capability to choose any moral commands; and the problem of God's goodness (PoGG), which questions God's goodness if morality could be other than what it is. Modern defenders of DCT have attempted to counter these objections through (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Morality and religion.Tim Mawson - 2009 - Philosophy Compass 4 (6):1033-1043.details In this article, I look at recent developments in the field of the Philosophy of the relationship between morality, understood in a realist manner, and the primary object of religious belief in the monotheistic religions, God. Some contemporary solutions to the Euthyphro dilemma and versions of moral arguments for the existence of God are discussed. Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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