Question 1

What does meta-ethics mean?

Accepted Answer

Literally 'beyond ethics', hence a study of the meaning of moral language such as 'good' and 'right'.

Question 2

What is 'good' according to Divine Command Theory?

Accepted Answer

Moral goodness comes from God's commands or from the divine will

Question 3

What does the term 'ethics mean?

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Custom or habit

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Attitude

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Behaviour

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Language

Question 4

What is meant by the term 'teleological'?

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Concerned consequences of actions

Question 5

What does 'deontological' mean?

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Focuses on whether the action is right or wrong.

Question 6

What is meant by the term 'absolutism'?

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fixed, unchangeable

Question 7

What is 'relativism'?

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Changes according to situation/circumstance.

Question 8

What does the term 'omnipotent' mean?

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All-powerful

Question 9

What is the Euthypro Dilemma?

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A difficult choice first posed by Plato, between morality being based on divine command (good because God says so, which makes morality seem arbitrary) and morality being independent of God (which makes God irrelevant to morality).

Question 10

What is the problem of arbitrariness?

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The arbitrariness problem is the problem that divine command theory appears to render the content of morality arbitrary (arbitrary means based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system).  If divine command theory is true, it seems, then what is good and what bad depends on nothing more than God’s whims. Whims, though, even God’s whims, are not an adequate foundation for morality.

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