PHIL-P 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Divine Command Theory
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Is that how you now wish us to define piety and impiety? . This third account is a form of divine command theory. Divine command theorists hold that the fundamental question in ethics (what ought i do?) is answered by looking to the commands given to us by. So, according to the divine command theorist, a right action is right because god said so. There are different versions of divine command theory, but they all say that morality depends on god in some way. Socrates states the following at 10: is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is being loved by the gods? . Here we have socrates" dilemma for the divine command theorist. Socrates" way of resolving the dilemma spells trouble for euthyphro"s third account. Here"s why: (1) that which is god-loved is god-loved because it is loved by the gods. (true)
