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Journal: Reflect on the following question? Is Divine Command Morality Ethics necessary and/or sufficient for Christian Ethics?

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1 Journal: Reflect on the following question? Is Divine Command Morality Ethics necessary and/or sufficient for Christian Ethics?

2 Cont. Euthyphro & Socrates

3 II TEXT | PLATO, EUTHYPHRO (c) Criticism – Christians today do not justify their ethics in that way. For Christian God’s word settle ethics. (i) Christianity & the question put to Euthyphro (ii) The dismissal of religious ethics (d) The Divine Command theory of morality: Good because God allows it and bad because God forbids it. Most philosophers dismiss this view. IS CHRISTIAN ETHICS DIVINE COMMAND ETHICS?

4 II TEXT | PLATO, EUTHYPHRO Is Christian ethics Divine Command ethics? 5 |The religious justification of ethics “The assumption that we need God for the ethics” Is there something God cannot do? So when we looks at ourselves for a standard of right and wrong are we looking at a non-divine standard? Divine standards or human standards as a false dichotomy? Do we put religion above morality?

5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fisH54IFoEw

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