Explain divine command theory
Use examples, discuss two problems this viewpoint raises.
- Divine command theory: The view that we act morally when we do what God commands us to do. What is morally right and good (or wrong and evil), is defined simply by God's will; our independent moral sense of right and wrong, good and bad, is irrelevant.
- Answers Plato's question "Do the gods love piety because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it?" with the second possibility.
- How does one know that the command came from God and not from some other force or as a result of mental illness?
- Why would an omniscient god give a person a command that violated his or her personal ethics or moral upbringing?
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