... over the world, even though this is only to their citizens this is still setting a president that their morals are "more important" than Thailand's. The question that arises in Plato's Euthyphro is should people be immune from popular moral belief if they do something that is good and also bad, such as murdering a murderer. In ... father committed the crime of murder, and his claim was that it was just and that the murdered man had killed a slave. Euthyphro's response to this is that it doesn't matter because his father murdered and that is against the law. He said, "It's ridiculous tha...

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... wrong. If God commands it then it is considered morally right, and if God forbids something then it is morally wrong. Four hundred years before Jesus was born Plato wrote Euthyphro, and in this passage he wrote that right could be seen as what the gods command. Socrates basically says back that if it is right because the gods command it ... ...

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... Philosophy. A philosophical system is when an idea is taken and is worked into all aspects of experience. Plato shared his philosophy in what he called "dialogues." As shown in the Euthyphro, his early dialogues consisting of Socrates asking "what is ____" and the respondent answer is analyzed continually. Plato introduced the concept of viewing reality as "what is real" and "what appears ... ...

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