PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ten Commandments, The Dilemma
15 Dec 2017
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Chapter 13: care ethics & ethics and religion. 380bc greek philosopher plato wrote a philosophical dialogue that portrayed socrates (plato"s teacher) conversing with religious expert. Socrates asks euthyphro what a pious or morally justified act amounts to: a pious act is an act that the gods all love and approve. Soc: the point which i should first wish to understand is whther the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods. Euth: i do not understand your meaning, socrates. Euthyphros view is that the gods love or approve pious acts because they are morally right. Thus the moral standard exists autonomously: stands on its own independent of any diety. The moral standard would still exist with no deity. Dependancy thesis provides two important views of how morality depends upon god: natural law theory morality arisis out of the goal towads which things aim.
