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    The Euthyphro dilemma does not defeat Adams' Divine Comma... — Carmelics
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    The Euthyphro dilemma does not defeat Adams' Divine Command Theory

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    • 1.The Euthyphro dilemma for DCT asks whether God commands what is right because it is right, or whether rightness is constituted by God's commands
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    • 2.If God commands what is right because it is right, then rightness holds independently of God's commands, undermining DCT
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    • 3.If God's commands are not grounded in antecedent rightness, then God's commands appear arbitrary
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    • 1.Adams' distinction between goodness and rightness merely relocates the Euthyphro dilemma to the level of the good itself.
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    • 2.If God's essential nature constitutes goodness, we must ask whether God's nature is good because it instantiates goodness, or whether goodness just is whatever God's nature happens to be.
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    • 3.The second horn—goodness is whatever God's nature is—entails that God's nature is good by definition, making divine goodness trivially true and morally vacuous.
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    • 1.Adams' claim that God is essentially and necessarily good presupposes an independent standard of goodness by which God's nature is evaluated as good rather than evil.
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    • 2.If that standard of goodness is conceptually prior to and independent of God, then moral facts are grounded in something other than God, undermining the theistic foundation Adams intends to provide.
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    Therefore the Euthyphro dilemma presents a false alternative under DDS...80%God's willing that I decide as I do does not make my decision God's.73%The First Being has no such potentiality.71%A Divine Command Theory that does not ground God's commands in God's e...71%

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    Obviously, those who do not find a DCT convincing will not think this argument from moral obligation has force. However, Adams anticipates and gives a forceful answer to one common criticism of a DCT. It is often argued that a DCT must fail because of a dilemma parallel to one derived from Plato’s Euthyphro. The dilemma for a DCT can be derived from the following question: Assuming that God commands what is right, does he command what is right because it is right (assuming that “right” here mean
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    If God commands what is right because it is right, then rightness holds independ...
    If God's commands are not grounded in antecedent rightness, then God's commands ...
    If God's essential nature constitutes goodness, we must ask whether God's nature...
    If that standard of goodness is conceptually prior to and independent of God, th...
    The Euthyphro dilemma for DCT asks whether God commands what is right because it...
    The second horn—goodness is whatever God's nature is—entails that God's nature i...
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