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    It is not the case that The Euthyphro dilemma does not defeat Adams' Divine Command Theory

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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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    • 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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