Analysis Of Plato's Euthyphro Dilemma

In Plato’s dialogue titled Euthyphro, Plato, along with his companions, debate the idea of what is considered morally good and why or why not an action or object is considered morally good. Through this discussion, famously known as the Euthyphro dilemma, Plato questions his companions by asking whether something is pious merely because the God/gods approve it to be good or if something pious is pleasing to the God/gods because it is pious within itself. As Socrates states, “if the pious was being loved because it was pious, the god-loved would also be loved because it was god-loved; and if the god-loved was god-loved because it was being loved by the gods, then the pious would also be pious because it was being loved by gods” (Cahn 23). …show more content…
Antiquity preaches the Gospel of Jesus" (Blake and Newborn). Every religion shares a common ethical core and values for their beliefs – the golden rule which states that we are to treat one another as we would want to be treated ourselves. Because all religions share this same core belief, we must then assume that they received this core from some place which existed before their existence. This also must mean that there is only one God who governs all things and also that this God dictates all which is considered to be morally good. This God is the Judeo-Christian God who created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). All forms of religious claims which conflict against this core religion are thus, merely …show more content…
Rather, it deals with the ideas of the heavenly realms and who has the ultimate power that is capable of determining what is morally just in the eyes of the beholder. A Greek philosopher named Aristotle stated his belief that the world is constantly being moved by larger objects (Cahn 243-274). Small things are moved by large objects, larger objects are moved by even larger objects and so forth. The problem which arises from this theory is that, at some point, there will no longer be a larger object to move the large object. Aristotle considered this larger object to be the “prime mover”, God who does not move, yet governs all things that move. Aristotle, similar to many other philosophers, discovered that in order for the earth to operate in an orderly manner, there needs to be one God who governs all that is entitled to the earth and heavenly realms. This God is the Judeo-Christian God who created earth and heaven, is the foundation of all other man-made religions and has the entirety of wisdom and knowledge that is necessary to determine what is pious and impious, solving the Euthyphro