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Morality Cannot Have a Foundation in God: A Summary for the General Reader - Quentin Smith (web.archive.org)

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A short summary of some of the popular objections to divine command theory (the popular view most religious people have - that God creates morality)

Quentin Smith was a significant philosopher of religion, and was professor at Western Michigan University.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It sounds like a rehash of Plato’s Euthyphro dilemma... which Smith must surely have been familiar with, yet never references?

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