1. divine command theory
introduction

2. the divine command theory
The Good consists in always doing what God wills at any particular moment.
-Emil Brunner
The Divine Imperative

3. the divine command theory
Subjectivism: “X is right” means “I approve of X.”
Conventionalism: “X is right” means “My culture approves of X.”
The Divine Command Theory: “X is right” means “God approves of X.”

4. the divine command theory
The Divine Command Theory: There are some objective moral truths. “X is right” means “God approves of X”. “X is wrong” means “God disapproves of X”.

5. the problem of the moral atheist
If DCT is true, then either the moral atheist is guilty of an obvious logical or grammatical mistake.
The moral atheist isn’t guilty of such a mistake.
[So] The DCT isn’t true.

6. the divine command theory
The Divine Command Theory: There are some objective moral truths. “X is right” means “God approves of X”. “X is wrong” means “God disapproves of X”.
The Revised Divine Command Theory: There are some objective moral truths. For any right action X, X is right because and only because God approves of X. For any wrong action X, X is wrong because and only because God disapproves of X.