Euthyphro
Socrates asks Euthyphro whether actions are good because God commands them or does God command them because they are good? While Euthyphro attempts to define piety, he stumbles upon another great philosophical question. Throughout Plato’s Euthyphro, they try to discover what it is that makes actions right or wrong.To say that good and bad are defined by God’s commands means one of two things: 1) Actions are good because God commands them OR 2) God commands actions because they are good. How do we know which is right? It cannot be both, but at the same time, it has to be one. If actions are good merely because God commands them, then goodness becomes something that is arbitrary. Whatever God commands would then be good. If God had ordered us to murder, rather than to refrain from such an action, then murder would be good.
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Approximate Word count = 565
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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