University of Isfahan Metaphysics 2476-3276 11 28 2019 11 22 Metaethical reflections on Audi’s Divine Command theory Metaethical reflections on Audi’s Divine Command theory 81 96 24338 10.22108/mph.2020.118236.1181 FA Bahram Alizade Department of Philosophy Kharazmi University Journal Article 2019 07 28 There are two main criticisms that are brought against any divine command theory (DCT); namely DCT undermines the autonomy of morality and DCT puts morality on an arbitrary foundation. Audi has suggested that these two problems can be avoided by adopting the a priori groundedness view of DCT. He takes the property of being obligatory to be identical to the property of being divinely commanded (commandable) arguing that both of them supervene on non-moral (natural) properties. The grounding of moral properties on natural ones is a priori as well as necessary. So, basic moral principles are necessary truths and necessary truths are not determined by the Divine Will. It means that we can know moral concepts independent of theological ones. This study is an attempt to show that, Audi’s DCT is inconsistent with the well-known and highly plausible view of God’s free-command thesis. For this purpose, I used Murphy’s trilemma against the property identity version of the divine command theory. There are two main criticisms that are brought against any divine command theory (DCT); namely DCT undermines the autonomy of morality and DCT puts morality on an arbitrary foundation. Audi has suggested that these two problems can be avoided by adopting the a priori groundedness view of DCT. He takes the property of being obligatory to be identical to the property of being divinely commanded (commandable) arguing that both of them supervene on non-moral (natural) properties. The grounding of moral properties on natural ones is a priori as well as necessary. So, basic moral principles are necessary truths and necessary truths are not determined by the Divine Will. It means that we can know moral concepts independent of theological ones. This study is an attempt to show that, Audi’s DCT is inconsistent with the well-known and highly plausible view of God’s free-command thesis. For this purpose, I used Murphy’s trilemma against the property identity version of the divine command theory. https://mph.ui.ac.ir/article_24338_ef9cb80c53aef8b43783580ba02c99b0.pdf