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Diagnosing ideal world objections

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1018-1036, November 2025.
Caleb Perl
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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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A Non-Voluntarist Theory: An Alternative Evangelical Apologetic for Dealing with the Euthyphro Dilemma [PDF]

, 2016
This dissertation presents an alternative response to the Euthyphro dilemma that will be referred to as the Non-Voluntarist Theory. It offers a critical evaluation of contemporary evangelical divine command theories to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity ...
Posey, Evan
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A Euthyphro Dilemma for Higher-order Theories of Consciousness [PDF]

: According to a higher-order theory of consciousness, you are in a conscious (psychological) state if and only if you are conscious of being in that state.
Stoljar, Daniel
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Theistic Activism and the Euthyphro Dilemma [PDF]

, 2002
My dissertation focuses on the Euthyphro question, from one of the Socratic dialogues, understood in terms of the following dilemma posed against theistic ethics: (1) Either what is good/right is moral because God commands it, or it is not.
Baggett, David, Baggett, David.
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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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There is no haecceitic Euthyphro problem [PDF]

, 2019
Jason Bowers and Meg Wallace have recently argued that those who hold that every individual instantiates a ‘haecceity’ are caught up in a Euthyphro-style dilemma when confronted with familiar cases of fission and fusion.
Skiles, Alexander
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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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The real Euthyphro Problem, solved [PDF]

, 2017
Let us suppose that God commands all and only those actions that are obligatory, and prohibits all and only those actions that are wrong. We then face questions. Does God command the obligatory because it is obligatory?

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Euthyphro, the Good, and the Right [PDF]

, 2009
The Euthyphro dilemma is widely deployed as an argument against theistic accounts of ethics. The argument proceeds by trying to derive strongly counterintuitive implications from the view that God is the source of morality.
Milliken, John
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