Divine Command Theories and Human Analogies
Journal of Religious Ethics 14 (1):216 - 223 (1986)
| Abstract | Some writers employ human analogies in their attempts to defend a "divine command theory" of the foundation of morals. I argue that this strategy is self-defeating. Appeal to human analogies has implications which tend to undermine any interesting or full-bodied version of divine command theory. Indeed, this line of discussion suggests there is a logical confusion in the very idea that some agent-even God-might bring about obligations by an act of will. | |||||||||
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