Divine command

John E. HARE

Article Details

Divine command

Authors:

John E. HARE

Publisher:

Ankara University

Journal:

Journal of the Faculty of Divinity of Ankara University 2012 Vol.53 Issue 2, pp.187-198

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2012

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000878581

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

1309-2057

pISSN:

1301-0522

Abstract:

 

motivation. He takes from Anselm  the theory that there are two  basic affections of the will, what Anselm calls the affection for advantage  and the affection for justice. The affection for advantage is the drive towards  the agent’s own happiness and perfection. The affection for justice is the  drive towards what is good in itself, regardless of its relation to the agent.  All of us have both affections, and there is nothing wrong with this. We will  have both even in heaven. But the key question is the ranking of the two.  The right ranking is to pursue the affection for advantage only to the extent  permitted by the affection for justice. This view very probably becomes,  through Luther and the Lutheran pietists such as Christian August Crusius  , the origin of Immanuel Kant’s  statement of what  he thought was the supreme principle of morality, namely the categorical  imperative. In Crusius, the formulation is that there are actions that we ought.

Article Details

Divine command

Authors: John E. HARE

Publisher: Ankara University

Journal: Journal of the Faculty of Divinity of Ankara University 2012 Vol.53 Issue 2, pp.187-198

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 7/2012

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2000878581

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 1309-2057

pISSN: 1301-0522

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Authors:

John E. HARE

Publisher:

Ankara University

Journal:

Journal of the Faculty of Divinity of Ankara University 2012 Vol.53 Issue 2, pp.187-198

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2012

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000878581

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

1309-2057

pISSN:

1301-0522