Ben T. Page
Dis-positioning Euthyphro
Page, Ben T.
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Abstract
The Euthyphro objection is often perceived, rightly or wrongly, as the king objection to theistic meta-ethics. This paper proposes a response that hasn’t been much explored within the contemporary literature, based on the metaphysics of dispositions and natural law theory. The paper will first contend that there is a parallel between ways theists conceptualise God’s role in creating laws of nature and the ways God creates goods. Drawing upon these parallels I propose a possible response to the dilemma, where this response parallels the dispositionalist response as to how God creates laws of nature. I do this by first explicating a natural law theory of goodness, then suggesting how the ontology of dispositions can be used in a novel way to account for goods, and finally by explaining how all this relates to the dilemma. I conclude the paper by posing some objections to myself and providing some replies.
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Page, B. T. (2017). Dis-positioning Euthyphro. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 84(1), 31-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-017-9632-3
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | May 25, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Feb 27, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 27, 2018 |
Journal | International Journal for Philosophy of Religion |
Print ISSN | 0020-7047 |
Electronic ISSN | 1572-8684 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 84 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 31-55 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-017-9632-3 |
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