HoP 262 - On Command - Scotus on Ethics

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

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🗓️ 9 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Scotus argues that morality is a matter of freely choosing to follow God’s freely issued commands.

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0:00.0	Fennie pray a cost in the news
0:05.0	and there's to all of physical
0:08.0	and bless you all of physical.
0:10.0	He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at Kings College
0:24.9	London and the LMU in Munich. Online at W.W.
0:29.2	History of Philosophy. Net. Today's episode, On Command, Scotis on ethics. My parents knew a minister who spent
0:41.1	a week living on a few dollars a day to draw attention to the plight of the poor.
0:46.4	At church a member of the parish came up to her and said she had seen a picture of the minister's
0:50.9	family having dinner in the paper and was shocked.
0:55.0	Why shocked? inquired the minister.
0:57.0	The parishioner's response?
0:59.0	No matter how poor one is or is pretending to be, one can still serve one's ketchup from a bowl.
1:07.2	You have to admire this sort of unwavering commitment to right and wrong.
1:11.2	Some things are just not acceptable under any circumstances. Okay, perhaps
1:15.6	serving ketchup out of a bottle is not one of them, but here's a different example. What
1:20.4	about killing your own child? I'm glad to say my parents don't have a story about that.
1:26.0	There is one in the Bible though.
1:28.0	In chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis, we are told how God instructed Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on a mountaintop.
1:37.0	Abraham dutifully obeys and prepares his son upon an altar.
1:41.0	But just as he is grasping hold of the knife to do the terrible deed, an angel is
1:45.6	sent to tell Abraham to stop.
1:48.3	He has passed the test and need not kill his son after all.
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