Article: Divine Command Theories
December 7, 2009
Bibliography
Adams, Robert Merrihew. Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics. New York; Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1999. Develops a divine command account of moral obligation within a framework of theistic Platonism according to which God is the Good.
Andrew of Neufchateau. Questions on an Ethics of Divine Commands. Edited and translated by Janine Marie Idziak.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997 [1514]. Medieval defense of divine command ethics.
Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. New York: Hafner, 1948 [1789]. Contains criticism of divine command ethics.
See p. 22.
Cudworth, Ralph. A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality. New York: Garland, 1976 [1731]. Criticizes divine command ethics. See pp. 9-10.
Hauerwas, Stanley, and Charles Pinches. Christians Among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. A defense of theological virtue ethics by a leading Protestant moral theologian (Hauerwas) and one of his former graduate students (Pinches).
Idziak, Janine Marie, ed. Divine Command Morality: Historical and Contemporary Readings. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1979. Contains a useful bibliography.
Kierkegaard, Søren. Works of Love. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995 [1847]. Defends a distinctively Christian divine command ethics of love. See pp. 19 and 39.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990. A defense of Thomistic virtue ethics by a leading Roman Catholic moral philosopher.
Quinn, Philip L. Divine Commands and Moral Requirements. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Develops several versions of an ethics of divine commands.
References
Thomas Aquinas. Summa theologiae. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province.Westminster, MD: Christian Classics, 1981 [1266-1273]. See I-II, q. 94 and q. 100 and II-II, q. 104.
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