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Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
Geo Res 2022, 2(4): 297-309 |
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Received: 2022/08/23 | Accepted: 2022/10/30 | Published: 2023/03/1
Received: 2022/08/23 | Accepted: 2022/10/30 | Published: 2023/03/1
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Kazemi Oskooei S. On Adams on the Nature of Moral Obligation. Geo Res 2022; 2 (4) :297-309
URL: http://jpt.modares.ac.ir/article-6-65592-en.html
URL: http://jpt.modares.ac.ir/article-6-65592-en.html
School of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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In his book, Finite and Infinite Goods, The prominent Christian philosopher, Robert Adams, defends a weak version of divine command theory. According to this view, the nature of moral obligations is identical with being commanded by God. His argument for view has two stages. In the first stage he tries to show that the notion of moral obligation is essentially social in its nature. That is, moral obligations are constituted by social notions such as demands or commands of a third party such as a third person or the moral community. In the second stage he argues that this third party cannot be anything but God. In this paper I will try to criticize his argument in its first stage. I will show that his reasons and arguments for the claim that moral obligations have a social nature are inconclusive.
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