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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

4009	Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil [Taylor,C]
	Full Idea: Late medieval nominalism defended the sovereignty of God as incompatible with there being an order in nature which by itself defined good and bad.
	From: Charles Taylor (Sources of the Self [1989], §3.3)
	A reaction: Part of their attack on Platonism. But what made them place such a high value on the sovereignty of God?