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Robin: Look, I get it, Jaime. As an atheist, you think that God’s wisdom is foolishness, that God’s righteousness is wickedness, and that the bloody death of Jesus on the cross is hateful and ugly rather than the epitome of love and beauty that Christians like I think it is. The Bible makes it very [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Divine Command Theory’
God and Goodness
January 30th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Authority, Authority, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Ethics, God, God, Metaethics, Metaethics, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy Of Religion, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Rationalism, Religion, Religion 
Tags: Divine Command Theory, God and Goodness, God's goodness, Theological Voluntarism 
26 Comments »I Am A Moral Naturalist, Not A Subjectivist
January 20th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In a long comment on my post from this morning, George raised the question of usage of “subjectivism” beyond my own interpretation of the word. Let’s look to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which should be as neutral an adjudicating source as the English-speaking philosophy world has. I selected this source for its independent, encyclopedia character [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Authority, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Teleology, Teleology Tags: Divine Command Theory, Moral Relativism, Moral Subjectivism, Objectivist Relativism, Subjectivist Relativism, Voluntarism 7 Comments »Are Divine Command Theory And Objective Morality Mutually Exclusive Concepts?
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Luke Muelhauser confronts William Lane Craig with the inconsistency between his divine command interpretation of morality, according to which things are moral or immoral as solely determined by God’s calling them as such, on the one hand, and his insistence that in this way God is the source of “objective morality”: But let us say [...]
Posted in Arguments for the Existence of God, Christianity, Ethics, Metaethics, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion Tags: Christian Apologetics, Common Sense Atheism, Divine Command Theory, Luke Muelhauser, Objective Morality, Religious Apologetics, Subjective Morality, William Lane Craig 7 Comments »Philosophical Ethics: Hobbes On The Source Of Authority
October 4th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am blogging all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts primarily explicates the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices (such as my [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authority, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Featured, Historical Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Politics, Secularism Tags: "State of Nature", An Unjust Law Is Not A Law", Aquinas, Augustine, Bella Contra Omnes, Divine Command Theory, Free Rider Problem, Hobbes' Cardinal Virtues of War, Martin Luther King Jr, Monarchism, Moral Authority, Political Philosophy, Prisoner's Dilemma, Social Contract Theory, Sovereigns, Thomas Hobbes, Voluntarism No Comments »For God or Morality? On Those Who’d Hold Morality Hostage For Faith
August 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke In his recent critique of Francis Collins, the Christian Evangelical and geneticist recently appointed by Obama to head the National Institutes of Health, Sam Harris referenced the slides from one of Collins’s speeches. I want to take two posts (but possibly more if there are comments or if I otherwise have extra relevant ideas on [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Christianity, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Ethics, Faith, Francis Collins, Fundamentalism, God, Metaethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Rationalism, Religion, Secularism, Uncategorized, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Divine Command Theory, Fideism, Galileo, Moral Justification, Moral Objectivity, Nihilism, Religious Divided Loyalties, Religious Moral Equivalence, Sam Harris, The Argument From Morality, Voluntarism 4 Comments »Why Should Someone Else’s Faith Trump My Reason?
July 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke An excellent case for anti-theism from a Daily Dish reader: Though I would like to believe that I am a tolerant, open-minded person, it seems likely that I fall into the “anti-theist” category of atheists. I would not choose that label for myself, but it describes my attitude more or less. My strong feelings on [...]
Posted in Atheism, Bible, LGBTQAA, Politics, Probability, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy Tags: Alvin Plantinga, Anti-theism, Authoritarianism, Divine Command Theory, God of the Philosophers, Likelihood, Ontological Argument For The Existence of God, Plantinga's Ontological Agument For the Existence of God, Possibility No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Abraham and Isaac
July 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke That Mitchell and Webb Look dramatizes another Bible sotry:
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Religion, Religious Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Abraham, Divine Command Theory, Isaac, That Mitchell and Webb Look No Comments »A Follow Up Post On Gays And Christianity
July 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to this post I wrote about an archbishop of the Anglican church’s claims that those Christians who accept homosexuality do not share the same faith as him and that such people are being rolled over by “cultural trends,” came this passionate defense of Christian leaders’ right to discriminate against gays in the comments [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homosexuality, News Discussion, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Secularism, Satire, Secularism, Videos Tags: Anglican Church, Apostle's Creed, Barna Group, Betty Bowers, Biblical Literalism, Box Turtle Bulletin, Council of Nicea, Divine Command Theory, Gay Churches, Homophilia, Homophilic Bible, Michael Nazil-Ari, Newsweek, Orthodoxy, Religious Gays, Reverend Gene Robinson No Comments »Commitment To Value Without God
July 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke After I made this post replying to Jon Stewart’s and Daniel Florien’s remarks about the value of faith, I copied my remarks and posted them to the website Unreasonable Faith where Florien’s remarks had been found. In reply to my comment another poster asked us non-believers there what motivates our morality since, having grown up [...]
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