Reconsidering the Relation Between God and Ethics: The Relevance of Kierkegaard for the Contemporary Debate

International Philosophical Quarterly 49 (2):247-258 (2009)
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Abstract

Christian philosophers have always been interested in clarifying the relationship between God and ethics. The theories presented on this topic can be divided into two kinds: “divine command” and “other.” In this paper I evaluate two interesting but ultimately incompatible versions of the “other” variety: one by George Mavrodes and one by Søren Kierkegaard. In the course of my analysis I argue that anyone who reads Kierkegaard’s Works of Love as presenting a divine command theory is mistaken.

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