PHIL 347 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Divine Command Theory
1 Feb 2016
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Duty to help: coinciding interests e. g. world health/peace, consciousness of long term interests as well as immediate satisfaction, duty to not harm others, duty to not lie, keep promises. What makes an action morally right = god"s wishes. We can imagine a situation where god wishes innocent children to be tortured, and that situation would be morally correct. In the imagined situation, the action is morally wrong: 1 -> 2, but 2 is false, response: 1 does not lead to 2 - god is good, therefore couldn"t wish innocent children to be tortured. Therefore, there is good/evil prior to god"s wishes. Utilitarian: children suffering is evil, if there isn"t a compensating good, then the action of making kids suffer is wrong. Glover- conditions of human life are minimally satisfied. Killing a person who lives in isolation is wrong independently of how it. Human life "b" - (being) with a heart circulating blood.
