PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Divine Command Theory, Morality, Determinism
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Suggests that morality relative to religion: sacred scriptures teach right/wrong, doesn"t hold up very long. Story abraham and isaac: god demands abraham to bring his son and asks him to sacrifice him. Abraham agrees because of faith and before he kills him, voice says no and instead kills goat. But you cannot question it: problem: how do you know it was voice of god and not the voice of. Cannot question, cannot criticize, don"t know who is speaking to you: problem: if you accept that god is omniscient, then god must"ve known abraham was going to do that. Andrea yates: normal, great life, drowned kids because satan told her to, in her perspective: acting according to divine command theory, court: deemed clinically insane, to this day, no regrets because acting according to divine command. Rape is wrong because it violates the autonomy of an individual. People (subject to god which is subject to morality)
