Philosophy PHIL-P 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Divine Command Theory, Euthyphro Dilemma, Compatibilism

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Doxastic voluntarism - you have control over what you believe. (you have control all the time) It looks like this is false, people think they have control over religious belief. Clifford - it"s at the very least irresponsible and even unethical to form a belief without evidence. You always ought to form you belief in a certain way (on the basis of evidence). A ship owner wrongly assesses his ship as sea worthy. As a result of this wrong belief, all the people on board die. Is it implied from clifford"s position that there is control over what you belief. To do something wrong is to violate the commandments of god. (objective) moral truths are true because of the commands of god. Walter sinott-armstrong thinks this theory is wrong because there is a dilemma based on his interpretation of socrates. Is something immoral because god says it is? (divine command theory)

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