PHIL 1413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Divine Command Theory
2 Dec 2016
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Rachels agreed that not everyone believes the same things, different societies believe different things. However rachels (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes that the(cid:396)e a(cid:396)e so(cid:373)e (cid:449)hole t(cid:396)uths. This is(cid:374)"t a contradiction because beliefs are different than values. Societies can have different beliefs based upon the same values. (if we believe something to be sacred, we treat it the same way. ) Rachels is a good example of a critical thinker & argument. Plato (c. 427 347 bc), the most famous disciple of socrates (c. 469 . Socrates himself wrote nothing, but plato is presumed to have recorded much of his thought in his works. Its diffi(cid:272)ult, ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)e(cid:396), to disti(cid:374)guish plato"s thought f(cid:396)o(cid:373) that of. Socrates introduced the concern for justification (determining how, why, etc. ) to people. Empirical justification: using senses (science), concerns the real world we can see and touch. Rational justification: using reason, arguments, and concerns philosophy logic. Socrates introduced two ideas in the pursuit of truth.
