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Is there a connection between religion and morality? Ivan Karamazov, in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, famously declares that if God does not exist, then "everything is permitted." Most philosophers reject such a view and hold that moral truths do not depend on God. C.Stephen Evans argues that the truth lies somewhere between these two claims. It is not quite right to say that there would...

philosopher often described as one of the Cambridge Platonists.[17] It is rooted in a worry that a DCT is too narrow and does not account for all genuine moral obligations. I shall call this objection the “prior obligations objection.” A full-fledged DCT holds that all moral obligations are divine commands.[18] (Or, on some versions, that they stem from divine commands.) The prior obligations objection argues that there must be some moral obligations that are not grounded in divine commands because
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