This is a talk I gave to the Philosophy Club at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, this weekend. The talk was followed by a long discussion with some faculty, students at the college, and others who zoomed in. In this talk, I introduced and defended a divine command theory of ethics. I divided the talk into […]
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Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part III
May 16th, 2021 Comments Off on Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part III
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Euthyphro Dilemma · God and Morality · Graham Oppy · Russ Shafer Landau · Stephen Sullivan
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.
