Explain the Euthyphro dilemma and outline the flaws in the argument 6AE Source of morality.  God’s role in morality.  Human role in morality.  Proposed.

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Explain the Euthyphro dilemma and outline the flaws in the argument 6AE Source of morality.  God’s role in morality.  Human role in morality.  Proposed by Plato.  Summary of the story This is worth 3 marks Flaws: you could mention (p8+9) If God commands something is this enough for it to be moral? Moral law becomes arbitrary depending on God’s whims Can we always know what God wants us to do? What if we don’t have a command that directly applies to that situation. What about people who do not believe in God?

Summarise the Divine command Theory and the Modern approach to it 6KU (p13+14) The Divine Command Theory is highlighted in the Euthyphro dilemma. Christians believe God is all-powerful as well as good so therefore anything he commands should be obeyed.. The DCT takes God’s will to be the foundation of ethics. According to DCT, things are morally good or bad, or morally permissible, or prohibited, solely because of God’s will or commands. It assumes that whatever God decided is absolute.

However, many religious people today would be wary of this and say that morality is not absolute. Its relative. There are general principles we should follow like do not lie, kill, steal etc, but that there are exceptions to this rule also. So religious people would agree that moral principles can be absolute but that moral actions can be relative to the situation.

Most modern religious people would not accept the notion of an arbitrary approach to moral decision making – or that their God would act in such a way. Religious people expect consistency from their God and not the arbitrary relationship that the Greeks would have had with theirs. They will cross check such commands by referring to religious text, the traditions of their faith, what religious teachers and thinkers opinions are.

How do Christians work out what the right thing to do is in a moral dilemma 8KU Bible, interpretation of scripture, context of when written (p21) Tradition Religious Leaders, priest, General Assembly Church of Scotland, The Pope as head of the Catholic Church. Prayer, personal reflection and reading – autonomy/ reasoning. Teaching and examples of Jesus – sources etc WWJD?