Ethical problem on the origin of morality posed by Socrates
Part of a series on the
Philosophy of religion
Religious concepts
Afterlife
Apophatism
Cataphatism
Eschatology
Enlightenment
Intelligent design
Liberation
Miracle
Mysticism
Religious belief
Reincarnation
Religious faith
Scripture (religious text)
Soul
Spirit
Theological veto
Challenges
Ethical egoism
Euthyphro dilemma
Logical positivism
Religious language
Verificationism
eschatological
Problem of evil
Theodicy
Augustinian
Irenaean
Best of all possible worlds
Inconsistent triad
Natural evil
God
Conceptions
Anthropopathism
Brahman
Demiurge
Divinely simple
Form of the Good
Holy Spirit
Maltheist
Occasionalism
Pandeist
Personal
Process-theological
Summum bonum
Supreme Being
Unmoved mover
Existence
Arguments for
Beauty
Christological
Trilemma
Resurrection
Consciousness
Cosmological
kalām
contingency
metaphysical
Degree
Desire
Experience
Existential choice
Fine-tuned universe
Love
Mathematics
Miracles
Morality
Mystical idealism
Natural law
Necessary existent
Seddiqin
Nyayakusumanjali
Ontological
Gödel
Modal
Anselm
Meinongian
Mulla Sadra
Spinoza
Pascal's wager
Proper basis / Reformed epistemology
Reason
Responses to evil
Teleological
Intelligent design
Watchmaker
Junkyard
Trademark
Transcendental
Arguments against
747 gambit
Atheist's wager
Creator of God
Evil
Evil God
Fate of the unlearned
Free will
God of the gaps
Hell
Hitchens's razor
Incompatible properties
Inconsistency
No limits fallacy
Nonbelief
Noncognitivism
Occam's Razor
Omnipotence paradox
Poor design
Russell's teapot
By religion
Abrahamic
Baháʼí
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Mormonism
Mandaeism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Jainism
Sikhism
Wicca
Theories of religion
Acosmism
Agnosticism
Animism
Antireligion
Atheism
Creationism
Dharmism
Deism
Divine command theory
Dualism
Esotericism
Exclusivism
Existentialism
atheist
Christian
Feminist
Fundamentalism
Gnosticism
Henotheism
Humanism
Christian
religious
secular
Inclusivism
Monism
Monotheism
Mysticism
Naturalism
humanistic
metaphysical
religious
New Age
Nondualism
Nontheism
Pandeism
Panentheism
Pantheism
Perennialism
Polytheism
Process
Secular Shrine Theory
Shendao shejiao
Spiritualism
Shamanism
Taoic
Theism
Transcendentalism
Philosophers of religion
Irreligious
de Beauvoir
Camus
Critchley
Dennett
Drange
Draper
Epicurus
Foucault
Goldstein
Heraclitus
Harris
Hecht
Hume
Kenny
Lucretius
Łyszczyński
Mackie
Martin
Marx
Oppy
Mill
Nietzsche
Quine
Rand
Russell
Sartre
Schopenhauer
Searle
Singer
Spinoza
Voltaire
Buddhist
Nagarjuna
Vasubandhu
Buddhaghosa
Dignāga
Dharmakirti
Jayatilleke
Premasiri
Ñāṇavīra
Nakamura
Nishitani
Nishida
Keown
Loy
Thompson
Smith
Westerhoff
Garfield
Christian
Adams
Alston
Anselm
Aquinas
Augustine
Bell
Brümmer
Burns
Caird
Craig
Dalferth
Eliade
Evans
Gamwell
Heidegger
Hick
Kierkegaard
Kretzmann
Leftow
McCabe
McIntyre
Merricks
Miceli
Moser
Newman
Otto
Paley
Schaeffer
de Silva
Smith
Stewart
Swinburne
Taliaferro
Tamer
Thiselton
Ward
White
Wiebe
William of Ockham
Wollaston
Yandell
Islamic
al-Amiri
al-Attas
Averroes
Avicenna
Badawi
Brethren of Purity
Damad
al-Farabi
al-Ghazali
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Bajjah
Ibn Masarra
Ibn Miskawayh
M. Iqbal
al-Kindi
Nasr
Ramadan
al-Razi
Sadra
al-Shahrastani
Shariati
Suhrawardi
Shaykh Tusi
Waliullah
Jewish
Buber
Heschel
Maimonides
Mendelssohn
Schwarzschild
Soloveitchik
Hindu
Adi Shankara
Ramanuja
Madhvacharya
Udayana
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
Vāchaspati Misra
Jayanta Bhatta
Abhinavagupta
Raghunatha Siromani
Sri Aurobindo
Ramana Maharshi
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Radhakrishnan
BK Matilal
KC Bhattacharya
Others
Anderson
Emmet
Esaulov
Ferré
Forman
Glogau
Hartshorne
Hatano
Hatcher
Jefferson
Klostermaier
Kvanvig
Martinich
Meltzer
Runzo
Smart
Vallicella
Zank
Zimmerman
Related topics
Criticism of religion
Ethics in religion
Exegesis
Faith and rationality
History of religions
Natural theology
Religion and science
Religious philosophy
Theology
Philosophy of religion article index
v
t
e
Part of a series on
Platonism
Plato from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509 – 1511)
Life
Works
Theory of forms
Form of the Good
Theory of soul
Epistemology
Political philosophy
Euthyphro dilemma
Demiurge
Atlantis
The Republic
Allegory of the cave
Analogy of the Sun
Analogy of the divided line
Philosopher king
Ship of State
Ring of Gyges
Myth of Er
The works of Plato
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Cratylus
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Parmenides
Philebus
Symposium
Phaedrus
First Alcibiades
Second Alcibiades
Hipparchus
Rival Lovers
Theages
Charmides
Laches
Lysis
Euthydemus
Protagoras
Gorgias
Meno
Hippias Major
Hippias Minor
Ion
Menexenus
Clitophon
Republic
Timaeus
Critias
Minos
Laws
Epinomis
Epistles
Definitions
On Justice
On Virtue
Demodocus
Sisyphus
Halcyon
Eryxias
Axiochus
Epigrams
Related articles
Commentaries
The Academy in Athens
Middle Platonism
Neoplatonism
Allegorical interpretations of Plato
Plato's unwritten doctrines
Related categories
Plato
Philosophy portal
v
t
e
Socrates
The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" (10a)
Although it was originally applied to the ancient Greek pantheon, the dilemma has implications for modern monotheistic religions. Gottfried Leibniz asked whether the good and just "is good and just because God wills it or whether God wills it because it is good and just".[1] Ever since Plato's original discussion, this question has presented a problem for some theists, though others have thought it a false dilemma, and it continues to be an object of theological and philosophical discussion today.
^G.W. Leibniz stated, in Reflections on the Common Concept of Justice (circa 1702): "It is generally agreed that whatever God wills is good and just. But there remains the question whether it is good and just because God wills it or whether God wills it because it is good and just; in other words, whether justice and Goodness are arbitrary or whether they belong to the necessary and eternal truths about the nature of things."
The Euthyphrodilemma is found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is...
asked to define piety, he can simply rely on Euthyphro's definition. This however leads to the main dilemma of the dialogue when the two cannot come to...
In addition, the Euthyphrodilemma, first proposed by Plato (in the context of polytheistic Greek religion), presented a dilemma which threatened either...
Attention theft Bivalence Choice architecture Degrees of truth Dichotomy Euthyphrodilemma Fallacy of the single cause Half-truth Hobson's choice Law of excluded...
however, often speak of the gods in the plural form as well. The Euthyphrodilemma, for example, is formulated as "Is that which is holy loved by the...
punishment, and justice and medicine. Socrates presents the famous Euthyphrodilemma in the dialogue of the same name: "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by...
Hermeticism Metaphysics Mysticism Prayer Revelation Worship Related topics Euthyphrodilemma God complex God gene Theology Ontology Problem of evil (theodicy)...
der Ven argued that the choice between theodicy and cosmodicy is a false dilemma. Philip E. Devenish proposed what he described as "a nuanced view in which...
worshiped jointly with the Godhead, not separately; therefore the supplicant's dilemma does not arise. Others such as Richard Foltz has put forth evidence that...
and an unstoppable force. This raises the question, similar to the EuthyphroDilemma, of where this law of logic, which God is bound to obey, comes from...
v t e Philosophy of religion Concepts in religion Afterlife Euthyphrodilemma Faith or religious belief Intelligent design Miracle Problem of evil Soul...
Ethical egoism Euthyphrodilemma Logical positivism Religious language Verificationism eschatological Problem of evil Theodicy Augustinian Irenaean Best...
to God must deal with what is termed the Euthyphrodilemma, famously stated in the Platonic dialogue "Euthyphro" as: "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον, i.e. what...
v t e Philosophy of religion Concepts in religion Afterlife Euthyphrodilemma Faith or religious belief Intelligent design Miracle Problem of evil Soul...
v t e Philosophy of religion Concepts in religion Afterlife Euthyphrodilemma Faith or religious belief Intelligent design Miracle Problem of evil Soul...
v t e Philosophy of religion Concepts in religion Afterlife Euthyphrodilemma Faith or religious belief Intelligent design Miracle Problem of evil Soul...
ethics such as utilitarianism.[citation needed] According to Plato's Euthyphrodilemma, the role of the gods in determining right from wrong is either unnecessary...
v t e Philosophy of religion Concepts in religion Afterlife Euthyphrodilemma Faith or religious belief Intelligent design Miracle Problem of evil Soul...
Hermeticism Metaphysics Mysticism Prayer Revelation Worship Related topics Euthyphrodilemma God complex God gene Theology Ontology Problem of evil (theodicy)...
Hermeticism Metaphysics Mysticism Prayer Revelation Worship Related topics Euthyphrodilemma God complex God gene Theology Ontology Problem of evil (theodicy)...
Form of the Good Theory of soul Epistemology Political philosophy Euthyphrodilemma Demiurge Atlantis The Republic Allegory of the cave Analogy of the...
Hermeticism Metaphysics Mysticism Prayer Revelation Worship Related topics Euthyphrodilemma God complex God gene Theology Ontology Problem of evil (theodicy)...
Ethical egoism Euthyphrodilemma Logical positivism Religious language Verificationism eschatological Problem of evil Theodicy Augustinian Irenaean Best...
v t e Philosophy of religion Concepts in religion Afterlife Euthyphrodilemma Faith or religious belief Intelligent design Miracle Problem of evil Soul...
Form of the Good Theory of soul Epistemology Political philosophy Euthyphrodilemma Demiurge Atlantis The Republic Allegory of the cave Analogy of the...
Ethical egoism Euthyphrodilemma Logical positivism Religious language Verificationism eschatological Problem of evil Theodicy Augustinian Irenaean Best...
Global Information
