In, “Is ethical naturalism more plausible than Supernaturalism“, I criticised Walter Sinnott-Armstrong’s objection that a divine command theory (DCT) makes morality arbitrary. Armstrong argued: “Let’s assume that God commanded us not to rape. Did God have any reason to command this? If not, his command was arbitrary, and then it can’t make anything morally wrong. On […]
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Richard Carrier and the Arbitrariness Objection
September 5th, 2014 5 Comments
Tags: Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Publication · Richard Carrier
Philosophia Christi: Abstract Objects and Divine Command Ethics Down-Under
February 14th, 2012 1 Comment
In December we were told that Matt’s article “Tooley, Plantinga and the Deontological Problem of Evil” had passed peer review and would be published in Philosophia Christi. Issue, 13: 2 is now out and if you look at the contents page you’ll see Matt’s article has now been published. The abstract to Matt’s article is as follows: […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Glenn Peoples · Philosophia Christi · Publication · Published
Published – Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection
September 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
The editor of the New Zealand Law Students Association (NZLSA) publication LEX has just advised me that she has published my article “Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection.” In it I argue that the objections to the The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill (a.k.a the “Three Strikes Bill”) on the basis that it affronts the proportionality […]
Tags: Public Policy · Publication · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill
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.
