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Divine command theory is the meta-ethical view which claims that: • Ethical sentences express propositions. • Some such propositions are true. • Those propositions are about the attitudes of God. Thi...
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The divine command theory (DCT) of ethics holds that an act is either moral or immoral solely because God either commands us to do it or prohibits us from doing it, respectively.
www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/divine.html www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/divine.html
Moral arguments for the existence of a God ... Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape (1997) by Michael Martin ... 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.
www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/moral.html
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.
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The Divine Command Theory ... Definition: The Divine Command Theory is a rule deontological theory of Normative Ethics which maintains that moral assessment is relative to the will of God. ... Perhaps the moral theory most common to humanity for the vast majority of history has been the DCT. When we survey the moral codes of...
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Argument for the Divine Command theory - 1. God created the universe and everything in it, including human beings. 2. If God created human beings, then God has an absolute claim on our obedience. 3. If God has an absolute claim on our obedience, then we should always obey God's commands.
www.hu.mtu.edu/~tlockha/hu329ov2.htm
The Divine Command Theory ... What is relatively uncontroversial about the Divine Command Theory? ... How useful is the Divine Command Theory?
www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/320/320dct.htm
Divine command theory and the "Euthyphro" problem; --Divine command theory as an account of right/wrong action: the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its relation to God's will.
www.isu.edu/~skidjame/euthyphro.html
No less a theologian than St. Thomas Aquinas rejected divine command theory. To reject it is not to reject theism, but rather to reject that the good is dependent upon God's current will.
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