An African religious ethics and the Euthyphro problem
Supposing that an African metaphysics grounded on the notion and/or value of vitality is true, can it do a better job in terms of informing an African religious ethics than its Western counterparts, specifically, the Divine Command theory (DCT)? By ‘religious ethics’, in this article, I have in a m...
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Supposing that an African metaphysics grounded on the notion and/or value of vitality is true, can it do a better job in terms of informing an African religious ethics than its Western counterparts, specifically, the Divine Command theory (DCT)? By ‘religious ethics’, in this article, I have in a mind a meta-ethical theory i.e., an account of moral properties whether they are best understood in spiritual rather than physicalterms. In this article, I articulate an under-explored African meta-ethical theory grounded on vitality, and I argue that the Euthyphro problem is not a successful objection against it like it is usually thought to be for DCT. This relative advantage of the vitalist meta-ethics does not necessarily render it plausible, but it gives us some ground to seriously consider the future of African religious ethics grounded on it.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5300741f2ca84252996187d6695ae8b42024-03-18T11:04:46ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792017-10-0149110.18820/24150479/aa49i1.2An African religious ethics and the Euthyphro problemMotsamai Molefe0University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Supposing that an African metaphysics grounded on the notion and/or value of vitality is true, can it do a better job in terms of informing an African religious ethics than its Western counterparts, specifically, the Divine Command theory (DCT)? By ‘religious ethics’, in this article, I have in a mind a meta-ethical theory i.e., an account of moral properties whether they are best understood in spiritual rather than physicalterms. In this article, I articulate an under-explored African meta-ethical theory grounded on vitality, and I argue that the Euthyphro problem is not a successful objection against it like it is usually thought to be for DCT. This relative advantage of the vitalist meta-ethics does not necessarily render it plausible, but it gives us some ground to seriously consider the future of African religious ethics grounded on it. http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/3248Divine Command TheoryMeta-ethicsReligious ethicsVitality |
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| title | An African religious ethics and the Euthyphro problem |
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| topic | Divine Command Theory Meta-ethics Religious ethics Vitality |
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