Perfect goodness and divine motivation theory

Midwest Studies in Philosophy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 296-309

  Zagzebski, Linda ^a  

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EID: 61049411027     PISSN: 03636550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4975.1997.tb00530.x     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Marcel Sarot examines and defends Thomas's reasons for denying emotion to God in "God, Emotion, and Corporeality," The Thomist (January 1994): 61-92. The article also includes an extensive review of the contemporary literature on impassibility.
2. See James G. Hanink and Gary R. Mar, "What Euthyphro Couldn't Have Said," Faith and Philosophy 4, no. 3 (July 1987): 241-61.
3. G. E. M. Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy," Philosophy 33 (January 1958): 1-19.
4. It is interesting to consider the series of papers on Divine Command Theory by Robert M. Adams. In the final paper in the series, "Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again" (Journal of Religious Ethics 7, no. 1, 1979) Adams argues that moral obligations should be identified with the commands of a loving God. Adams has imported the kind of emotion state I am arguing should be fundamental into his version of DC theory.
5. We might even get a divine-motivation-based theory of aesthetic value out of reflections on divine creativity.
6. Zagzebski, "An Agent-based Approach to the Problem of Evil," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 39 (June 1996): 127-39.
7. This essay is the second of my Jellema Lectures, delivered at Calvin College, March 12, 1996. The motivation-based virtue theory briefly described here is the topic of the first of my Jellema Lectures, "Making Motivation Primary," delivered on March 11, 1996.