In my previous post I mediated on the morality of lying. I suggested that a divine command theorist: a person who believes that the property of moral wrongness is the property of being contrary to God’s commands does not need to affirm that lying is wrong in any and all circumstances. In updating the post […]
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Theology, Morality and Reason
March 1st, 2008 Comments Off on Theology, Morality and Reason
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · Faith and Reason · Peter Cresswell · Theology
Permissible Lies
February 19th, 2008 2 Comments
In wake of the return of the stolen victoria crosses and the Police claiming they are “honour bound” to pay the thieves the promised reward not PC argues that it is permissible to lie to an agressor. The standard example in the literature (which PC utilises) goes something like this: You are hiding someone fleeing […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · Lucia Maria · Peter Cresswell · Theology
Back Online
February 12th, 2008 Comments Off on Back Online
Thanks for all the emailed messages of condolences. Its been a pretty rough 10 months and the last month or so was the hardest. We are picking up our lives gradually so I guess this means we are officially back online. Madeleine
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Offline for a while
January 11th, 2008 2 Comments
Matt’s mother lost her battle with cancer on Wednesday so we will be offline for a while. Madeleine
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Mayra Veronica and the Troops in Iraq: Where the Islamists Have a Point
December 12th, 2007 2 Comments
I am a fan of Bill Vallicella’s blog. A few days ago I found a post of his which is worth reproducing [link to post now broken Jan 2011]. He led with a picture of a scantily clad and busty Mayra Veronica and wrote: Don’t expect any more ‘eye candy’ on this site, but now […]
Tags: Bill Vallicella · Islam · Mayra Veronica · Religion in Public Life
New Publication
November 21st, 2007 Comments Off on New Publication
I just received word from the Editor of The Journal of Ethics and Medicine that my article “Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criteria: A Critique” has been accepted for publication in a future issue (the exact issue is still being decided). There may be some minor amendments made but at present the following is the […]
Tags: Abortion · David Boonin · Ethics · Feticide · Published
Damian Peterson on Sexual Morality
November 21st, 2007 7 Comments
In a recent post I took a swipe at an argument often used to justify current sex education policies. In the comments section Damian Peterson advanced the debate further than this specific argument. I think he raises some issues worth clarifying so I will respond to them here. Damian’s comments in full are, OK, I […]
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
