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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Euthyphro"”.
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Siding with Euthyphro : response-dependence, essentiality, and the individuation of ordinary objects
(cont.) essentiality. I start with our practices of engaging in thought experiments about the essences of things and show how my account vindicates those practices.
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Justice, Piety, and Slavery in Plato's Thought
… of justice and piety as outlined in the Euthyphro: justice is voluntary slavery to the laws, and piety is voluntary slavery to the gods. But Plato, unhappy with the death of his mentor, revises this account of justice. According to the Gorgias and the Republic, as I claim in Chapter 2, …
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
… It is shown, using an argument based on the Euthyphro and the Open Question Argument that realism is untenable because it makes this mistake, and this clears the path to expressivism. Chapter 2 is a full account of the issues surrounding the Frege-Geach problem (often pressed against Hare), …
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Persistent Problems In Modified Divine Command Theory
I argue that there are persistent problems in contemporary modifications of divine command theory. Divine command theory states that God’s commands are moral obligations only because he commands them. Modified divine command theories attempt to add to or amend the justification for God’s commands …