Another step in divine command dialectics
Faith and Philosophy 26 (4):432-439 (2009)
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Alexander R. Pruss
Baylor University
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Consider the following three-step dialectics. (1) Even if God (consistently) commanded torture of the innocent, it would still be wrong. Therefore Divine Command Metaethics (DCM) is false. (2) No: for it is impossible for God to command torture of the innocent. (3) Even if it is impossible, there is a non-trivially true per impossibile counterfactual that even if God (consistently) commanded torture of the innocent, it would still be wrong, and this counterfactual is incompatible with DCM. I shall argue that the last step of this dialectics is flawed because it would rule out every substantive metaethical theory
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| Keywords | Contemporary Philosophy Philosophy and Religion |
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| ISBN(s) | 0739-7046 |
| DOI | 10.5840/faithphil200926439 |
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