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    It is not the case that Therefore, the divine command theorist cannot escape Cudworth's 1731 charge: moral knowledge grounds theological knowledge, not the reverse.

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    • 1.Cudworth conflates epistemological grounding (how we know) with metaphysical grounding (what makes something true).
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    • 2.Divine command theorists can affirm both that moral knowledge and theological knowledge co-depend without one grounding the other.
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    • 3.Our modal access to moral truths may reflect God's eternal nature rather than proving moral facts exist independently of divinity.
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    • 1.We recognize moral truths (torturing children is wrong) prior to and independently of any theological commitments.
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    • 2.Divine command theory requires pre-existing moral knowledge to identify which commands are genuinely divine versus demonic.
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    • 3.If God's commands defined morality, we could not coherently ask whether God's commands are morally good, yet we do.
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