I’ve read Plato’s Euthyphro and still have a hards time understanding what his idea is. It felt like the ramblings of someone with ADHD.
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Euthyphro’s dilemma is a question about whether something is good because God says it’s good or whether God says it’s good because it’s already good.
If the first option is true, then morality is just whatever God decides, and it could change at any moment. If the second option is true, then there must be some standard of morality that even God follows, and morality is not just based on God’s commands.
This dilemma raises important questions about where our ideas of right and wrong come from and whether they are based on religion or something else entirely.
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