What if God commanded something horrible? A pragmatics-based defence of divine command metaethics

The objection of horrible commands claims that divine command metaethics is doomed to failure because it is committed to the extremely counterintuitive assumption that torture of innocents, rape, and murder would be morally obligatory if God commanded these acts. Morriston, Wielenberg, and Sinnott-A...

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Main Author: Kremers, Philipp (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2020
In: Religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 597-617
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B God / Command / Metaethics / Possibility
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
NCA Ethics
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