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📌 In Divine Command Theory, actions are right because God commands them and wrong because God forbids them.
📌 In Divine Command Theory, a person is morally good by obeying God’s commands, rather than by relying only on feelings or logic.
Further detail
Divine Command Theory treats moral rules as objective, meaning true for everyone rather than dependent on personal opinion.
Divine Command Theory connects God’s omnipotence with the power to determine what is morally right and wrong.
God commands an action → it is right; God forbids it → it is wrong.
1. Which claim captures the central meta-ethical position of Divine Command Theory?
2. A person asks why an action counts as right within Divine Command Theory. Which reason fits the theory?
3. Maya follows a divine command despite her feelings pointing the other way. Under Divine Command Theory, what grounds her moral goodness?
What kind of theory is Divine Command Theory?
A meta-ethical theory.
On what do moral truths depend in Divine Command Theory?
God’s will or commands.
Why are actions right or wrong in Divine Command Theory?
They are right when God commands them and wrong when God forbids them.
What makes a person morally good in Divine Command Theory?
Obeying God’s commands.
What forms the foundation of moral truth in DCT?
God’s nature and will.
How does DCT characterize moral truth in relation to human emotions and cultures?
Absolute and independent of human emotions and changing cultures.
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