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Divine Command Theory
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Scenario Overview
Using the divine command theory we believe that the officer would have a difficult decision in determining what in fact to do. The moral decision that follows the divine command theory is to report the truth to the staff sergeant. The divine command theory may be interpreted differently depending the individual based on their religious beliefs.
Points to Consider
Summum Bonum
When talking about the divine command theory, what also falls into play is summum bonum. Summun bonum means the highest good and always doing the right thing whether it may hurt you or the others around you. One of the Ten Commandments in the bible is you must not give false evidence against your neighbor. Basically what the summun bonum shows us is that we should do what God would want us to do and not the choices that we want to make.
- Faced with two challenging situations
- What God would consider being the "right decision" and what you would consider are going to be different
- The potential harm of the young boy VS the wrong doing of the officer towards the suspect
- The potential loss of trust in your fellow officers or the gain of trust to the staff sergeant
What is Divine Command Theory?
Teleological OR Deontological?
The divine command theory of ethics holds that an act is either moral or immoral solely because God either commands us to do it or prohibits us from doing it, respectively (Agustin, 2013). On Divine Command Theory the only thing that makes an act morally wrong is that God prohibits doing it, and all that it means to say that lying is wrong is that God prohibits lying.
The deontological system of ethics is whether or not
your initial choice was right no matter what the outcome is.
This system in relation to the divine command theory is to make decision based on whether
ones god says its right and no matter the outcome it was the right thing to do. The divine command theory is one of the biggest examples of a deontological system.