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why adams need to modify his divine command theory 1 more time
Sullivan S.J. 1994, 'Why Adams Needs to Modify His Divine-Command Theory One More Time',
Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers
, vol. 11, no. 1, pg. 72-81
(Sullivan S.J. 1994)
pp. 73-74 --> at first glanse Adams version seems to circumvent issue of arbitrayness --> not true - divine love not enough to explain moral requirements
pp. 74 --> oss adams reponse - more firm ans as to what divine love is - what makes Gd omnibenevolent, wa tform does it taqqke sthat leads to the determining of the goodness of actions?
poss inculde e.g. like text --> GOd as loving being want to maximise wellfare for his beloved humans --> thereforeIt must be consisrede that God makes his sommand to meet this end
--. 75 --> another adams poss responce - several motives
but as Sullivan points ot not only do these sseem to stray from Adams views present vy wha twe can see in his thoery that it seems unliky he would accept these prososels
pp. 76-77 --> what the poss adaptions fail - this is done by assesing the adaptations through the casual/historical refernece theoy Adams uses when definign moral terms inhis thoery
causal/historical theory --> for something to be 'ethically/morally wrong in DCT, wringness is defines as the property of an act that best fits the set defintion of wringness sent by the concept/theiry - in DCTR Adams follows that disobying Gods cammands fits the calsues fo this thoery that for the choden thing 'disbeying commands' to be wrong it must explain a laqrge amount of the actions deemed to be wring, and it must cusally follow how these beleifs came to be.
not following Gods commands - beleived to be wring acts, to not do this is to do a right act, causal as God cerated us to morally reason to reflet his commands
https://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1473&context=faithandphilosophy