Rachael's Article
- If ethics are based on religion
- Divine command theory: What commands is good, whatever god forbids is wrong
- Positives
- Authoritative: God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent,
- Clear guidelines: If human laws contradict goods commands god wins
- Negatives
- not compelling to atheists
- no room for human rationality
- Interpertation
- Where do we find gods commands
- different people cite different texts and rationality: Why do people believe in their tradition; socialization
- even within traditions there are differ within traditions, there are differing opinions (i,e,) abortion
- selective interpretation: west borrow baptist church; god hates gays so he kills people in Afghanistan: Leviticus, but why don't we have to not eat pork and own slaves
- Plato
- Euthyphro dilemma; knows what is good; says killing a slave is good; Socrates proves that it's wrong
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