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On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence

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On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence

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Robert M. Adams (1979, 1987a, 1987b) defends a modified variant of the divine command theory (hereafter MDCT) to the effect that he proposes a moral argument for God’s existence driven in the form of practical reasoning with respect to rational moral agents’ beliefs in the adequacy of MDCT. For Adams, one’s commitment to MDCT as the most adequate theory legitimately provides her a practical reason for why she ought to believe in God’s existence which MDCT implies. In this paper, I criticize the viability of Adams’ moral argument considering its argumentative structure and strategy. Adams’ strategy behind his moral argument, i.e. mediating theistic beliefs with deontic ones, seeks out a non-decisive medium that might be used to ubiquitously generate equally plausible arguments for/against God’s existence based on distinct sorts of allegedly adequate theories of some subject matter. Thus, his argument does not seem to distinctively ground God’s existence in comparison with a myriad of practical arguments which might follow the same argumentative strategy on the same practical grounds. More significantly, there seems to be coherent no way for Adams to disambiguate his argument on theoretical grounds.

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Kaynakça

  1. Adams, R. M. (1987a). A modified divine command theory of ethical wrongness. The virtue of faith and other essays in philosophical theology (pp.97-122). Oxford University Press.
  2. Adams, R. M. (1979). Divine command metaethics modified again. The Journal of Religious Ethics, 66-79.
  3. Adams, R. M. (1987b). Moral arguments for theistic belief. The virtue of faith and other essays in philosophical theology (pp.144-163). Oxford University Press.
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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

30 Haziran 2023

Yayımlanma Tarihi

28 Aralık 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

19 Eylül 2022

Kabul Tarihi

6 Aralık 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Sayı: 39

Kaynak Göster

APA
Polat, M. (2022). On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, 39, 19-29. https://izlik.org/JA44HZ74ZW
AMA
1.Polat M. On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji. 2022;(39):19-29. https://izlik.org/JA44HZ74ZW
Chicago
Polat, Mustafa. 2022. “On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence”. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, sy 39: 19-29. https://izlik.org/JA44HZ74ZW.
EndNote
Polat M (01 Aralık 2022) On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji 39 19–29.
IEEE
[1]M. Polat, “On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence”, Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, sy 39, ss. 19–29, Ara. 2022, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA44HZ74ZW
ISNAD
Polat, Mustafa. “On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence”. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji. 39 (01 Aralık 2022): 19-29. https://izlik.org/JA44HZ74ZW.
JAMA
1.Polat M. On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji. 2022;:19–29.
MLA
Polat, Mustafa. “On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence”. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, sy 39, Aralık 2022, ss. 19-29, https://izlik.org/JA44HZ74ZW.
Vancouver
1.Mustafa Polat. On Adams’ Moral Argument for God’s Existence. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji [Internet]. 01 Aralık 2022;(39):19-2. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA44HZ74ZW