... apply not only to divine command theory within monotheistic religions but polytheistic religions as well. As stated above, divine command theorists feel that they must follow God's law. This is essentially where their "moral obligation" stems from. This gives people that endorse this theory a way to live their everyday lives. ... contained in many of our world's religious texts. Who's to say who's right? And how does one ultimately decide what the will of God is? That is an ever-present question that has caused argumentation and even war over the course of history. In the Euthyphro by P...

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... [1] Prosecute the wrong doer no matter who it is, what crime it is, not to prosecute is impious (Euthyphro, 6e). [2] What is dear to the god is pious, what is impious (Euthyphro, 7a). [3] The pious is what all the gods love (Euthyphro, 9e). [4] The godly and pious is the part of ... the just that is concerned with the care of the gods (Euthyphro, 12e). [5] A kind of service to the god of the god (Euthyphro, 13d). [6] The knowledge of how to sacrifice and pray (Euthyphro, 14c). [7] Piety is the knowledge of how to give to and beg from the gods ... in this case and in the case of Zeus, h...

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... one man, but he only satisfied one part of being a pious person. According to the American Heritage Dictionary being a pious person has devotion and severance towards his god and family.? Euthypro only pleased his god; by bring justice towards his father. He maimed his family and betrayed them. Being thoughtful towards his own family name; Euthyphro only considered him and his money ... some crimes. When Euthyphros father killed his hired hand, he still had a just reason for doing so. The two main ways to have a pious soul is by having devotion to god and family. Euthyphro showed obviou...

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... a violent cycle of blood for the family. What follows a curse is purging, another magical element of this world. This is done for the purpose of retribution. Purging is conducted by a god who sheds animal blood in order to wash away human blood. The act is supposed to be an endpoint to a curse. In the Eumenides, the Furies are responsible for all ... the Furies who take a subservient place to Apollo and the new gods. By the end of the Eumenides, Athena is brought in to solve the conflict. She is a more ambiguous god. While she is better represented by the vales of the new gods, she has ...

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... is impious."" (7A). According to Euthyphro, what is favorable to the gods is pious, and what is not favorable to the gods is impious. Socrates counters this by exposing the god's well-known disagreements. Euthyphro has admitted that the gods love the pious and hate the impious in chorus with disagreeing between themselves. This permits them to love and hate what ... is pious, and simultaneously agree and disagree on the same things. The god's lack of harmony doesn't validate Euthyphro's definition and only shows how he's furnished another condition/quality of piety. Euthyphro's third de...

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... love it, or do the gods love it because it is loved. To be loved is a quality given by an act of love. The mere fact of being loved by a god does not give meaning to piety or make the act pious. The point was to find out what a pious act is before declaring it to be ... god-loved. Euthyphro's third proposal was to say that piety is a knowledge of how to give to, and beg from the gods, or a part of justice concerned with care of the ... ...

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... that "what gods love is holy and what gods hate is unholy-. This earlier defintion did not work because it led to a problem. The problem was that one god loved "x-, for example, and another god hated "x-, that would lead to "x- being both holy and unholy. Euthyphro hence believes by adding the "all gods- to the third definition, the problem will no longer ... ...

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... is prosecuting one who is guilty of murder, no matter who the murderer is, just as he is doing against his father (Plato & Jowett, n.d.). He points out that even the god Zeus punished his own father. Socrates responds that although he would like to hear more about the gods at some point, of which he knows little, he is currently more ... ...

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... and human civilization. There are many people who have the opinion that it is not possible to believe in such an objective morality without also believing in concepts such as God or an eternal soul. I believe that they are wrong. I will attempt to show that an objective morality exists and that this morality is the same regardless of which religion, if ... ...

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... wrongdoer is your father or your mother or anyone else; not to prosecute is impious" (Euthyphro 5e). Socrates is defending himself in his case. He doesn't believe in all the God's ideas and is defending himself to justify his opinion. So he has similar thoughts about morality. He says: "I find it hard to accept things like that being said about the ... ...

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... change their minds. Once more, according to Euthyphro they get whatever is dearest to them. But this brings the argument right back to the beginning. What is dear to one god is not always dear to another, for they are often at war with each other. In the end piety is never defined, however they have established what is not piety ... ...

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