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Legal grounds

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 110-135, March 2026.
Abstract It is overwhelmingly plausible that part of what gives individuals their particular legal or institutional statuses is the fact that there are general laws or other policies in place that specify the conditions under which something is to have those statuses.
Louis deRosset
wiley   +1 more source

Social construction and meta‐ground

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 954-973, November 2025.
Abstract The notion of social construction plays an important role in many areas of social philosophy, including the philosophy of gender and sex, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of disability. Yet it is far from clear how this notion is to be understood.
Asya Passinsky
wiley   +1 more source

A Critique of the Neo-Platonist Theory of Moral Value

Religions
Divine Command Theory holds that what is morally right is what is commanded by God. This view faces a form of the Euthyphro dilemma: either God commands actions because they are right, in which case moral standards are independent of God, or actions are ...
Kai Michael Büttner, David Benjamin Dolby   +1 more
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On Deontic Truth and Values

Crítica, 2017
This article analyzes the thesis of ethical relativism, as defended by Alchourrón and Bulygin (1983). These authors offer, on the one hand, a suggestive conception according to which the question “what are our obligations?” is equivalent to thinking ...
J.J. Moreso
doaj  

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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Diagnosing ideal world objections

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1018-1036, November 2025.
Caleb Perl
wiley   +1 more source

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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The Euthyphro Dilemma, Assisted Dying, and a Virtue Ethics Approach to Autonomy [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT The Euthyphro dilemma highlights that accounts of moral value which are dependent on the decisions of agents either result in arbitrary values arising from agent's decisions, or accept external reasons to morally justify the value, making the agent's decisions unnecessary for explaining the resulting value. This highlights an
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Drugs and trials: lessons from Plato. [PDF]

Clin Ther, 2013
Trachtman H.
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Performable Case Studies in Ethics Education. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel), 2017
Robeson R, King NMP.
europepmc   +1 more source