What if God commanded something horrible? A pragmatics-based defence of divine command metaethics
The objection of horrible commands claims that divine command metaethics is doomed to failure because it is committed to the extremely counterintuitive assumption that torture of innocents, rape, and murder would be morally obligatory if God commanded these acts. Morriston, Wielenberg, and Sinnott-A...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2020
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Religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 597-617 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
God
/ Command
/ Metaethics
/ Possibility
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God NCA Ethics |
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