Is morality simply whatever a deity commands us to do?
In short: Explore the ancient and enduring debate of Divine Command Theory, a foundational approach to ethics that asks whether moral truths are created by a higher power or exist independently of it.
This video examines Divine Command Theory, one of the oldest and most popular frameworks for solving the grounding problem in ethics. It specifically investigates the Euthyphro Problem, a dilemma originally presented by Plato that challenges the very foundation of this theory by questioning the relationship between divinity and morality.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: Divine Command Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #33
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