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Dis-positioning Euthyphro
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The Euthyphro objection is often perceived, rightly or wrongly, as the king objection to theistic meta-ethics. This paper proposes a response that hasn’t been much explored within the contemporary literature, based on the metaphysics of dispositions and natural law theory. The paper will first contend that there is a parallel between ways theists conceptualise God’s role in creating laws of nature and the ways God creates goods. Drawing upon these parallels I propose a possible response to th...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Journal website
- Volume:
- 84
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 31–55
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1572-8684
- ISSN:
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0020-7047
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pubs:698594
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- pubs:698594
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698594
- Deposit date:
- 2017-06-07
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- Page, B
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2017 The Author.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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