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Divine Command Theory - Coggle Diagram
Divine Command Theory
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The Emptiness Problem
this problem is one that analyses statements like 'God is good' and claims they are merely empty tautologies
Statements like this, if we accept divine command theory, are rendered empty and trivial as 'god is good' is merely 'god is as he wills himself to be'
But, to a theist, it is through these claims that God is worthy of worship, and so if they are now trivial, how can he be?
However, a rebuttal could be that God's goodness is different from human goodness and that divine command theory is only an analysis of human goodness, not that of God's
What is it?
the theory that what makes something morally right is that God commands it, and what makes something morally wrong is that God forbids it
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Euthyphro Dilemma
this dilemma comes from Plato's dialogue that shows Socrates discussing morality with Euthyphro as they sit outside the Greek courthouse and await their own fates
The dilemma begins by posing a question: 'Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?'
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if one answers with the first horn, then they face the independence problem that if morally good acts are willed by god because they are good, then they were good independently of God's willing them
This would imply that God did not create the rules of morality, and thus that he did not create everything. This would imply he is not omnipotent
if one chooses the second horn, there are a few more problems:
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Pluralism Objection
The plurality of religions and the plurality of interpretations of 'divine commands' within a religion provides serious difficulties for any theory that sees divine commands as the basis for ethical right and wrong.
Basically, ethics is subjective
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