tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post5005735076975700977..comments2024-03-28T12:34:14.649-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: C. S. Lewis's critique of the raw divine command theoryVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-89477604481545050462013-05-08T03:53:19.444-07:002013-05-08T03:53:19.444-07:00Your criticism negates the point. There is still t...Your criticism negates the point. There is still the possibility within your divine command theory that God could command rape and it would be morally obligatory, even good, merely because he commanded it. Suggesting that God would not command rape because it is not his idea of good implies that he has an idea of good independent of himself. A divine command theorist can't say God would not command rape, because under Divine Command it would be right if God did, and to say that God wouldn't do so implies God has a knowledge of good, not an arbitrary control of good.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686777095978611906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-11386307166631230262009-07-12T14:54:05.907-07:002009-07-12T14:54:05.907-07:00I don't see how it follows from Divine Command...I don't see how it follows from Divine Command Theory that God's ideas of what are good and so on are different from ours. If what counts as good and what counts as bad depends on his choice, then I should think our moral sense and ideas of good and bad would correspond to what he decided they were. If he decided rape was bad, he would make us with the idea and conviction that rape was bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com