Asides from having a good education‚ a man in Ancient Greece should value and ignore certain actions. As I have stated earlier a man should value education‚ but asides from that he must be a pious person. We can see in the dialogues between Euthyphro and Socrates that piety should be valued a lot. In other words a man should value
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There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead on the tracks there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are some distance off the tracks on a footbridge standing next to a very large or fat man; we will call him the portly fella. You can push the man off the bridge‚ and his body will fall onto the tracks and stop the trolley from killing the five people‚ but will kill the portly fella. You have two options: (1) Do nothing
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The Divine Command Theory Religion and ethics are seen to be somehow inseparable in our culture. Religious leaders are usually appealed to in some capacity when dealing with various moral and political problems. Their opinions are given great weight because they are thought to be in some kind of special relationship with God that the common person does not have. The view that God creates the moral law is often called the Divine Command Theory. According to this view‚ what makes an action right is
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Summary of Morality Without God by John Arthur Nirvair Chahal Dr. Ronald de Sousa PHLA11 S T.A. Chad Horne 996811650 January 24‚ 2012 John Arthur argues that morality exists without the influence of religion in his passage Morality Without God. Arthur claims that morality is independent of religion both logically and psychologically. He first distinguishes what he is referring to when he speaks of morality and religion. Arthur explains that morality is having the tendency to evaluate
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be the primary concern of philosophy (Gregory & Giancola 3). He focused on the idea that human nature was formed through reasoning and stressed the importance of self-knowledge. In classic Socrates dialogues‚ such as his discussion with Euthyphro in Plato’s Euthyphro‚ Socrates attempts to guide others on the path to moral self-examination by helping them recognize their ignorance and believed that “the recognition of one’s ignorance is the starting point for all knowledge” (Gregory & Giancola 3). Essentially
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ETHICS Philosophy 120 Also known as Religious Studies 120 Professor Marcella Norling “We are discussing no small matter‚ but how we ought live.” Socrates‚ in Plato’s Republic Loading... The Oxford English Dictionary definition of PHILOSOPHY: •Use of reason and argument in seeking truth and knowledge of reality‚ especially knowledge of the causes and nature of things and of the principles governing existence •Particular system or set of beliefs reached by this Branches of Philosophy
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an argument called The Euthyphro dillemma‚ which begins by asking a question; are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good? If someone gives an answer to the dilemma that morally good acts are willed by God because they are morally good‚ then it links to the independence problem. If morally good acts are willed by God because they are morally good‚ then they must be morally good. The divine command theory person must give the second answer the Euthyphro dilemma. Religion can
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make such sets of rules- supposedly the word of God- a decidedly shaky foundation upon which to build an understanding of morality. The logical pitfalls of the theory that morality comes directly from God’s word can be explained through Plato’s Euthyphro dilemma. If the first answer to the dilemma is chosen- that God commands something because it is good- moral codes must‚ logically‚ be independent to God’s will. If morally correct acts are chosen by God for the reason that they are so‚ they must
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In return‚ he endeavors into figuring out what it is to be pious‚ for his argument in Court. His attempt turns‚ naturally so‚ into a discussion on the distinction between the pious and the impious. After Euthyphro tries to argue‚ “that the pious is [...] to proceed against whoever does injustice.” Socrates argues that what makes us pious is our state of being pious. For example‚ mathematics is true‚ regardless of circumstances‚ it is true and pure. How does
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First‚ in Plato’s Euthyphro‚ we see the Socratic Method of questioning being applied in a discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro. Plato writes‚ “Socrates: … Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious‚ or is it pious because it is being loved by the gods? Euthyphro: I do not know what you mean‚ Socrates.” (Plato 11). This method of questioning and critical thinking is what Socrates
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