Euthyphro dilemma

Question 1

The Euthyphro dilemma

Answer 1

Plato’s famous question concerning the nature of goodness and asks whether a thing is good because God says it is good or does say it is good because it really is Good.

Can God make right be wrong or good be bad? is morality whatever God wills it to be or is morality something independent of god?

Question 2

Can God make right be wrong or good be bad?

Answer 2

If morality is whatever God wills, then if God wills what is now morally wrong , then what is wrong will become right - if God commands us to murder babies , then murdering babies would be morally right.

Question 3

is morality whatever God wills it to be or is morality something independent of god?

Answer 3

If morality is independently of what God wills , then God cannot make what is wrong be right - murdering babies is wrong whatever God commands. To be good, God must conform his will to something independent of him.