Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 077 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Euthyphro Question
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The idea
The Euthyphro question asks: is conduct right because God commands it, or does God command it because it is right?
In practice
Socrates put the ancestor of the question to Euthyphro about piety and the gods; twenty-four centuries later, each answer still carries a cost.
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