Divine simplicity

In The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante shows how reading matters in life. There are many reasons of why Dante wrote The Divine Comedy one of them is for literacy purposes. He wrote the comedy in Tuscan Italian instead of Latin; even though, Italian had not been standardized into one language yet. Dante’s Comedy was one of the Italian writing and it became the language that all educated could understand and study. He may have written the comedy for revenge as many think, but in my opinion he wrote…

Deciding the accuracy of the order of sin in Dante’s Inferno, was not easy for me to initially question. Without much familiarity of Christian’s thought on sin, other than not to do them, I decided to start my analysis of Dante’s order of sin from the top. I agree with the placement of Limbo as being the first circle of Hell because the victims had no knowledge of God. My one question for this circle is if not knowing makes one guilty or innocent? Because this question seemed to philosophical…

In order to find one specific idea within the many themes and symbols found in Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno”, I had to look past the obvious themes such as justice, evil, man’s place in the natural world and religious beliefs. Instead I wanted to focus on a theme that occurs in almost every story known to man. The theme I chose is the “journey”, or the concept of importance within a journey. A theme that I feel is mostly overlooked because the audience and character(s) are too focused on the…

God 's Call, by John E. Hare, is based on three lectures Hare gave at Calvin College in which he presents and defends his version of Divine Command Theory. The books is separated into three essays. The first essay gives the historical context of Hare 's theory. In the second Hare lays out his theory. In the third he defends his theory, and compares it to his understanding of Kant 's theory of ethics. Hare argues that the history of moral philosophy is a story of compromise. There exist two…

it is only natural that they reach many points of consensus. When Charles I came into power in 1625 religious conflicts and internal tensions had already begun to form in the aftermath of the protestant reformation. Charles believed that he had a divine right to rule and supported hierarchies in the anglican church. Protestants had a strong opposition to anything that…

Absolutism means that the sovereign power or ultimate authority in the state rested in the hands of a king who claimed to rule by divine right the idea that kings received their power from God and were responsible to no one but God. Catherine The Great and Tokugawa Ieyasu were both known as prominent absolute rulers but, Ieyasu was a more effective absolutist ruler. Tokugawa controlled his country by reasonable means that wouldn’t cause uprisings and distrust while still being the only one to…

Morality Exists Independently from Religion Historically, religion and morality have had an influence on each other. The influence of religion has led to the development of some aspects of morality. For example, many abolitionists were religious leaders. On the other hand, morality has had an influence on religion. For example, morality has influenced the Catholic Church’s role over women and abortion. While religion and morality may influence each other, is one necessary for the other? It is a…

Political Legitimacy and Water The strength and proper operation of any type of political administration, whether that be democratic or representative, relies on the combination of the ability of rulers and government officials to use coercion and the establishment of political legitimacy. Political legitimacy is when the entire political system and the decisions of their rulers are recognized by the people and the rules are accepted for their validity. Political systems that have high…

by Socrates during Plato’s Euthyphro. The question is seen to object the Divine Command Theory. Socrates asked, “is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” or in other words, “Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?” (Philosophy of Religion The Origin of the Euthyphro Dilemma). The Divine Command theorist faces problems that will not allow them to be able…

pious because it is loved by the Gods, or if it’s loved by the Gods because it is pious. As time went by, a modernized model of this argument came to life and from that, a new philosophical theory was introduced: the “Divine Command Theory” (DCT). In this essay, I plan to explain what Divine Command Theory is, propose an argument that is usually offered against this theory which is that God can possibly command us to…