Divine Command Practice
4. People who have chosen to believe in God also tend to assume that if God is the creator of the universe then god, for some reason, gets to decide what rules people should follow in that universe.
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8. The argument that the divine command theory must be true because without some divine being to create morality morality could not exist at all commits the fallacy of begging the question because it gives no reason to think the morality cannot exist without God.
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9. The Divine command Theory does not really solve the grounding problem because it does not give us any logical rule that we can apply to solve moral problems.
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10. The Divine command Theory does solve the grounding problem because, like Einstein's general theory of relativity, it gives us a mathematical means to solve a wide variety of moral problems.
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11. The Divine command Theory solves the grounding problem because all the grounding problem is, is the problem of having something to say when people ask about the basis of morality (and have no follow-up questions.)
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13. Once we accept the Divine command Theory it becomes clear that ahura-mazda is the god that has all the answers to all the moral questions.
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14. The Divine command Theory is simple because we have the Mishneh, which codifies the Talmud, which itself works out all the implications of Torah.
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16. The euthyphro Dilemma states that it is logically possible for for it to be both true that god commands things because they are moral and things are moral only because God commands them.
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18. The main logical consequence of assuming that god only commands things because those things are morally good is that the Divine command theory is true, because the fact that God commands things because they are moral implies that they are only moral because God commands them.
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19. All the Divine command Theory says is that God is a sort of cheerleader for Morality, and does not have any independent moral Authority.
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2. Ethical absolutism is the idea that morality can only exist if it is based on some absolute moral truth, which itself can be demonstrated through rigorous logical deduction.
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21. The main logical implication of assuming that things are only morally good because God commands them is that people have completely independent real-world reasons for doing what God wants them to do.
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23. If the Divine command theory is true, and morality is entirely defined by the will of God, the phrase "God is good" means that God's Behavior meets an independently verifiable absolute standard of morality.
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5. People who believe in the Divine command Theory do so because they have deduced that theory from the basic principles of logic.
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6. People who believe in the Divine command Theory do so because they have found in the facts of human psychology inductive evidence that Divine command theory is true.
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7. People who believe in the Divine command Theory do so because of scientific facts about the nature of human physiology and health.
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1. Ethical absolutism is the idea that morality is real in the same sense that logic is real. Rules of morality apply always and everywhere just as the rules of logic always and everywhere apply.
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12. The Divine command Theory is not simple, because it is not at all simple to figure out which God is the right one, and it is often pretty complicated to figure out what any given god might want.
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15. The statement that God commands morality allows for exactly two possibilities. Either god commands things merely because those things are moral, or things are moral merely because God commands them.
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17. The main logical consequence of assuming that god only commands things because those things are morally good is that the Divine command Theory is false.
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20. The main logical implication of assuming that things are only morally good because God commands them is that there is nothing actually wrong with people completely ignoring morality when they make their decisions about what to do.
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22. If the Divine command theory is true, and morality is entirely defined by the will of God, the phrase "God is good" just means "god pleases himself".
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3. Divine command Theory holds that the commands of God are identical to the demands of morality. What is moral is what is commanded by God, and what is commanded by God is always what is moral.
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