Maitzen’s Objection from God’s Goodness

Sophia 61 (3):581-598 (2022)
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Abstract

Stephen Maitzen argues that divine command metaethics must be mistaken because it is committed to the implausible assumption that the sentence ‘God is good’ is a tautology. In this article, I show that a charitable interpretation of R. M. Adams’ version of divine command metaethics is not committed to accept this assumption. I conclude that Maitzen’s objection merely manages to refute a strawman version of divine command metaethics.

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Philipp Kremers
Georgetown University

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