Divine command theory faces the Euthyphro dilemma: either acts are good because God commands them (making morality arbitrary) or God commands them because they're good (making goodness independent of God).

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Euthyphro(as one of the early Platonic dialogues): A dialogue (philosophical conversation) written by Plato in which Socrates asks a man named Euthyphro to define what piety (doing what the gods want) really means.
Euthyphro Dilemma(Originally posed by Socrates in Plato's Euthyphro regarding piety; applied here to the grounding of moral knowledge in divine will): The dilemma of whether something is morally good because God wills/loves/commands it, or whether God wills/loves/commands it because it is morally good
Independent of(as used in logical relationships): Separate from and not dependent on; not needing or being influenced by something else.
arbitrary(Debate over Locke's watch passage and natural kind classification): Does not mean 'random' or that all qualities are equally adequate as differentia; refers instead to the availability of multiple similarly good and natural grounds for classification.

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