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British Journal of General Practice, 2013 The first recorded moral codes that we possess, such as the Code of Hammurabi (1760 BCE) or the Ten Commandments of the Mosaic Law (1400 BCE) rely on the authority of divine commands. Some still debate today whether there can be morality without God.
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PAINFULNESS, DESIRE, AND THE EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA [PDF]
American Philosophical Quarterly, 2018 Abstract The traditional desire view of painfulness maintains that pain sensations are painful because the subject desires that they not be occurring. A significant criticism of this view is that it apparently succumbs to a version of the Euthyphro Dilemma: the desire view, it is argued, is committed to an implausible answer to the ...
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Think, 2008 Is something good because God wills it, or does God will it because it is good? This lies at the heart of our debate on “Good without God”. Here Tim Mawson explains how he thinks the theist can solve it.
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A New Explanation of Why the Euthyphro Dilemma Is a False Dilemma
Religions, 2023 The article gives a new explanation for why the Euthyphro dilemma is a false dilemma and argues that it is a middle position that both the theist and the atheist could accept. The argument is that both the will of God and the preferences of individuals are necessary truthmakers for what the good is.
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Why Jim Joyce Wasn’t Wrong: Baseball and the Euthyphro Dilemma [PDF]
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 2015 In 2010, pitcher Armando Galarraga was denied a perfect game when umpire Jim Joyce called Jason Donald safe at first with two outs in the bottom of the 9th. In the numerous media discussions that followed, Joyce’s ‘blown’ call was commonly referred to as ‘mistaken’, ‘wrong’, or otherwise erroneous.
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The Holy and the God-Loved: The Dilemma in Plato’sEuthyphro
The Monist, 2022 AbstractIs the holy holy because the gods love it or do the gods love it because it is holy? On the basis of this dilemma Plato works out the manifold and complex relationship between God and Morality in his dialogue Euthyphro. This dialogue not only plays a central role within Plato’s work on the question of the relationship between ethics and ...
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Euthyphro's "Dilemma", Socrates' Daimonion and Plato's God
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2010 In this paper I start with the familiar accusation that divine command ethics faces a «Euthyphro dilemma». By looking at what Plato’s Euthyphro actually says, I argue that no such argument against divine-command ethics was Plato’s intention, and that, in any case, no such argument is cogent.
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Swinburne on the Euthyphro Dilemma. Can Supervenience Save Him?
Forum Philosophicum, 2008 Modern philosophers normally either reject the „divine command theory” of ethics and argue that moral duties are independent of any commands, or make it dependent on God's commands but like Robert Adams modify their theory and identify moral duties in terms of the commands of a loving God. Adams regards this theory as metaphysically necessary. That is,
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Judaism and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Towards A New Approach
TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 2018 This article attempts to utilize representative talmudic source-material that bears on the Euthyphro dilemma, and more widely, that discusses the central role of human agency in the foundations of Jewish law, in order to sketch a modified version of divine command theory (DCT), under which both horns of the traditional dilemma are grasped. That is, the
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