Robert Adams's Theistic Argument from the Nature of Morality
In "Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief" Robert Merrihew Adams defends a theistic argument from the nature of morality according to which the existence of God is entailed by the divine-command theory, which Adams believes is our best account of morality. In reply I examine the four argumen...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1993
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1993, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 303-312 |
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Summary: | In "Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief" Robert Merrihew Adams defends a theistic argument from the nature of morality according to which the existence of God is entailed by the divine-command theory, which Adams believes is our best account of morality. In reply I examine the four arguments for the modified divine-command theory that Adams develops in this and later papers, and I show that three of the arguments are much too weak to enable him to make a case for theism in this way and that the fourth itself depends on the assumption that there is a God and so would render that case circular. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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