Philosophy

1) The Divine Command Theory The divine command theory argues that God is the lawgiver and that it is he who has introduced the rules of morality to us. It tells us that because morality is “right” that means that God “commands” it. It argues that God and morality is dependant on one another. It also states that God is altruistic because everything that is “good” God commands. This theory tries to solve the problem of …

…no one can judge right from wrong, we are once again infallible as a culture and we can never learn from our mistakes. In the culture that believed that the earth is flat, they will continue doing so because according to this theory, no one can judge them, so therefore no one will correct their mistakes. That culture will continue believing the same things unless someone tells them that what they are doing is wrong.