The Euthyphro Argument

KrillinFromwales

68 Posts

February 26 2025 20:29 GMT

Are goods things loved by the gods? The answer is hyperbolic: goods, defined as economic items are goods for humans and are loved by the gods because they are good for humans. Individual gods might prefer differ refutations. For example, Zeus might prefer to deliver an argument that he is not god.

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Switzerland3700 Posts

March 18 2025 23:28 GMT

Here's a summary of an essay I wrote a while ago:

The standard Theist Neo-Platonist response goes something along these lines: Goodness is not a separate quality that God must follow; it is part of who God is. In this view, God’s nature is the very definition of goodness.

Everything that is good does so by sharing in or resembling God’s perfect nature. When God gives a command, it is inherently good because it comes from a being whose nature is goodness itself.

This approach removes the need to ask whether something is good because God commands it or if God commands it because it is good. Instead, God’s commands are good by their very source.

See Moral arguments for GOD https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-arguments-god/

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KrillinFromwales

68 Posts

March 27 2025 01:38 GMT

Yeah, I agree completely. The evolution of the Judeo-Christian God has removed most of the dilemmas. There's no point doubting the conclusion.

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