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Cf, Hugo Meynell, “The Euthyphro Dilemma”,Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume (1972), pp. 223–234, and Richard Swinburne, “Duty and the Will of God”,Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. IV. no. 2, Dec. 1974, pp. 213–227.
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Ibid, “Moral Arguments for Theistic Beliefs”, p. 122.
Ibid, “Moral Arguments for Theistic Beliefs”, p. 122.
Ibid, “Moral Arguments for Theistic Beliefs” p. 122.
Ibid, “Moral Arguments for Theistic Beliefs”, p. 137.
Bertrand Russell,An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, (New York, 1940) 84.
Cf. Baruch Brody, “Morality and Religion Reconsidered” reprinted inDivine Commands and Morality.
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Taliaferro, C. The divine command theory of ethics and the ideal observer. SOPH 22, 3–8 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02891788
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