voluntarists

One must ask whether such individuals value charitable independence or are indeed voluntarists.

Letters: Self-indulgent charities must change

Pinckaers has done in revitalizing the Thomistic moral theology, I wonder if he is correct in tracing the origins of the problems that arose in Catholic moral theology to the voluntarists and William of Ockham.

Archive 2008-04-06

These public-spirited voluntarists are not the problem.

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One can affirm normative theological voluntarism or metaethical theological voluntarism while failing to affirm theism; atheists and agnostics can be theological voluntarists of either stripe.

Theological Voluntarism

Rather, metaethical theological voluntarists aim to say something interesting and informative about moral concepts, properties, or states of affairs; and they want to say something interesting and informative about them by connecting them to acts of the divine will.

Theological Voluntarism

But theological voluntarists have tended to argue that theological voluntarism has something specific to offer to theists.

Theological Voluntarism

Metaethical theological voluntarists might claim that (e.g.) obligation is a theological concept, or that the property of being obligatory is a theological property, or that obligations are caused immediately by the divine will.

Theological Voluntarism

Some theological voluntarists have responded to this sort of worry by claiming that what God commands/intends with respect to human action,

Theological Voluntarism

But theological voluntarists want to say that at least that the properties in the obligation family are to be accounted for in terms of this view.

Theological Voluntarism

While these objections have been answered plausibly in recent formulations of theological voluntarism, the way that these objections have been answered leave theological voluntarists open to a different objection: that theological voluntarism is not adequately motivated as a philosophical position.

Theological Voluntarism