**Q & A on project/presentation due next week.
**Due tonight:
------>Read Pojman, chapter 5, "Religion and Ethics."
------>Writing: Think of this as a puzzle to solve:
------>------>Imagine that a mysterious, superior being appears
to you and says, "I am God and I am good; therefore, obey my
command--torture your mother." (Just for the sake of quieting the
plausibility issue temporarily, feel free to refer to the Bible's Book
of Genesis, Chapter 22, in which God very matter-of-factly tells the
patriarch Abraham to kill his son as a sacrifice to God.) How would the
proponent of the divine command theory deal with this sudden order from
the deity? What would be some possible ways out of this dilemma that
would not violate the intentionality of the DCT point of view?
**Discussion of the assignment question.
**Religion and Ethics:
**For next week:
------>Be prepared to turn in your movie paper, and to spend 10-15 minutes presenting a brief synopsis of your chosen story and what you thought the issues were.
------>Read Pojman, chapter 6, "Utilitarianism."
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