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A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics

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A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics

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The divine command meta-ethics (hereafter, DCM) promote non-naturalist realism about the ontological status of moral properties while depending on this ontological status on a such-and-such divine being’s moral roles derived from some relevant divine characteristics. As DCM typically contends, our moral discourse depends on God’s commands and prohibitions to the effect that an action A is morally right if and only if God commands A. Robert M. Adams (1979, 1987a) offers a modification that explicates the dependency relation between a loving God’s commands and moral properties on metaphysical grounds to the effect that some action A is morally right if and only if it is not logically but metaphysically necessary for a loving God to command A. In this paper, I discuss whether Adams’ modification stands for a cogent account of DCM in a few respects. Firstly, Adams fails to provide robust reasons for grounding moral realism so that his commitment to the reality of moral properties merely expresses a theoretically unwarranted assumption hinging on a presumptive case in our moral discourse. Particularly, his assumption on the pervasiveness of strongly held moral beliefs is unwarranted and it inherits a vague notion of certainty. Secondly, Adams' response to the Euthyphro dilemma does not satisfactorily sort out the concerns accompanying this dilemma, mainly because his response relies on a vague notion of divine love that allegedly necessitates God commanding morally permissible acts while this notion cannot be trivially reducible into a moral aspect.

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  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.
  4. Alston, W. (1990). Some suggestions for divine command theorists. Christian theism and the problems of philosophy (pp.303-326). University of Notre Dame Press.
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Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

29 Haziran 2023

Yayımlanma Tarihi

29 Haziran 2023

Gönderilme Tarihi

28 Nisan 2023

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29 Haziran 2023

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2023 Sayı: 40

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APA
Polat, M. (2023). A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, 40, 53-68. https://izlik.org/JA99XS24ZP
AMA
1.Polat M. A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji. 2023;(40):53-68. https://izlik.org/JA99XS24ZP
Chicago
Polat, Mustafa. 2023. “A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics”. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, sy 40: 53-68. https://izlik.org/JA99XS24ZP.
EndNote
Polat M (01 Haziran 2023) A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji 40 53–68.
IEEE
[1]M. Polat, “A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics”, Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, sy 40, ss. 53–68, Haz. 2023, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA99XS24ZP
ISNAD
Polat, Mustafa. “A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics”. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji. 40 (01 Haziran 2023): 53-68. https://izlik.org/JA99XS24ZP.
JAMA
1.Polat M. A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji. 2023;:53–68.
MLA
Polat, Mustafa. “A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics”. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji, sy 40, Haziran 2023, ss. 53-68, https://izlik.org/JA99XS24ZP.
Vancouver
1.Mustafa Polat. A Critical Survey of Adams’ Divine Command Meta-ethics. Tabula Rasa: Felsefe ve Teoloji [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2023;(40):53-68. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA99XS24ZP