One way of answering this challenge is by appeal to the idea of God and God's commands - perhaps God’s commands are the objective moral laws .Of course, not everyone believes that God exists. But,...

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One way of answering this challenge is by appeal to the idea of God and God's commands -perhaps God’s commands are the objective moral laws.Of course, not everyone believes that God exists. But, even if Goddoesexist, there are some deep philosophical problems with the view that God'scommands could be the objective moral laws.


For this week’s online activity, I’d like you to watch the following two videos, in which a philosopher named Stephen Darwalldiscusses these problems.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmhiibdwznQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x726HASktrQ


After you’ve watched the videos, I’d like you to answer the following questions:What is the divine command theory? Explain one of the criticisms that Darwall makes against the divine command theory.


Please answer these questions in a 1/2 to 1 page write up

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Answer To: One way of answering this challenge is by appeal to the idea of God and God's commands - perhaps...

Sourav Kumar answered on Nov 14 2021
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At first, Stephen Darwall in his lecture took the example for Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Brothers Karamazov in order to talk about religion, god, morality and the divine command theory. Steven Darwall also takes examples from Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn while talking about what God commands us to do. In the novel set before the civil war in the United States, the protagonist Huck comes across a runaway slave Jim and is...
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