Natural Ethics and the Ethics of Divine Command

The tension between eudaimonist or other ethical ethics and divine orders can be traced back to Plato's Euthyphro that we ask that we are right. (Philosophers sometimes call it the Euthyphro dilemma). Sacred command theory has confirmed the former and appears in Oakham, Kierkegaard, Bart, as well as works by Locke and Berkeley [Honderich, 2005, "Holy Ordering Ethics"]. Still, even today, Christian scholars can prove the historical domination of Western natural ethics.

The name "God Command Theory" can be used to refer to any of a variety of relevant ethical theories. What these theories hold in common is that they use God's will as the basis of morality. According to sacred command theory, things are morally good or bad, or moral obligations, simply because of God's will and command, are allowed or prohibited. If Theist gives the first answer to Euthyphro's dilemma, then it is God's will to assert morally good behavior and they are morally good so he faces independence. Will, they are morally good, then they must be morally good, irrelevant to the will of God. This is obviously incompatible with God's instruction theory; sacred command theorist must give Euthyphro's dilemma a second answer

Sacred instruction theory is a moral theory that proclaims that God's will is the basis of morality. Based on sacred command theory, if God or God master it, things are morally right or wrong, mandatory, allowed or not allowed. In God's command theory, it is moral or immoral to do acts, divine orders or ban. In addition to God's command to do something, another aspect of divine command theory believes that behavior is moral, if God has motivation. Motivation of this sacred command theory can say that in addition to religious documents, some people can have the motivation to practice morality.

We have examined the morality of the theory called God's command. This is a view that its behavior is correct only when God ordered it, that it is only a mistake if God forbade it. As a realistic architect, God can judge good and evil perfectly, but he faced the difficulty of struggling a system to distribute moral value far. Please imagine the god in its original position. He decides which actions are good behavior and which actions are bad behaviors. Under the sacred command theory, remember that God's command establishes correctness, and that his prohibition has established a mistake. Imagine now that God is thinking about three kinds of actions. Stolen, fraud, attack. We believe that there is a moral order in the choice of God if we believe that these acts have a moral status when God considered them.