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    It is not the case that Moral obligations are identical with divine commands

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    • 1.Kant demonstrates that genuine moral obligation requires autonomy: acting from self-legislated rational principle, not external command.
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    • 2.Obligations grounded in divine commands are heteronomous, reducing moral agents to subjects of imperatives rather than authors of moral law.
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    • 3.A motivation structure dependent on divine sanction conflates moral obligation with prudential compliance, undermining the categorical nature of moral duty.
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    • 1.If moral obligations are identical with divine commands, then God cannot have moral reasons for issuing commands, making morality arbitrary (Euthyphro).
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    • 2.A being whose commands constitute rather than reflect goodness lacks the evaluative standard needed to be called morally authoritative.
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    • 1.Moral obligations must be motivating and objective
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    • 2.Moral obligations must provide a basis for critical evaluation of other types of obligations
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    • 3.Moral obligations must be such that someone who violates a moral obligation is appropriately subject to blame
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