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Richard Swinburne,The Coherence of Theism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 203.
Johnson (1984),op. cit.
David O. Brink,Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 7.
John Mackie,Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (New York: Penguin, 1977), p. 38.
Plato,Euthyphro, in G.M.A. Grube, translator,The Trial & Death of Socrates (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1975), p. 14.
Ibid.
S.J. Sullivan, “Arbitrariness, Divine Commands, and Morality,”International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 33 (1993), p. 33.
James Rachels,The Elements of Moral Philosophy (New York: Random House, 1986), pp. 42–43.
The classic statement of legal positivism is John Austin,The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, abridged as “Law as the Sovereign's Command” in M.P. Golding, editor,The Nature of Law (New York: Radom House, 1966). The clearest contemporary statement is H.L.A. Hart,The Concept of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961).
Jeffery L. Johnson, “Privacy, Liberty, and Integrity,”Public Affairs Quarterly 3 (1989).
See, for example, Ronald Dworkin,Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977).
See, for example, Nelson Pike, “Omnipotence and God's Ability to Sin,”American Philosophical Quarterly 6 (1969). Reprinted in Paul Helm, editor,Divine Commands and Morality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981).
See, Hart,op. cit., Chapter Five on the nature of secondary rules.
Robert M. Adams, “A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness,” inReligion and Morality: A Collection of Essays, edited by Gene Outka and John P. Reeder (Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1973). Reprinted in Paul Helm, editor,Divine Commands and Morality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 84.
Peter Geach,God and the Soul (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1969). Reprinted in Helm,op. cit., p. 172.
Dewi Z. Phillips, “God and Ought,” in I.T. Ramsey, editor,Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy (London: SCM Press, 1966); and Baruch A. Brody, “Morality and Religion Reconsidered,” inReadings in the Philosophy of Religion (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974). Both reprinted in Helm,op. cit.
Adams,op. cit.
Hart,op. cit., pp. 78–79.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 102.
William P. Alston, “Some Suggestions for Divine Command Theorists,” reprinted inDivine Nature and Human Language (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 268–269.
Ibid., pp. 268–269.
Ibid., p. 269.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations (New York: Macmillan, 1958), p. 25.
Adams,op. cit., p. 87.
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Johnson, J.L. Procedure, substance, and the divine command theory. Int J Philos Relig 35, 39–55 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01540519
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