Euthyphro Questions

1. I agree that belief in God is the only basis for morality. The rightness or wrongness of an action has to be predicated on something outside of ourselvessome objective truth or law. If there is a law, there must be a law giver. This objective rule or law or standard or ethic is what could be called the universals or the transcendentals. They can be understood by all people. Obviously, different cultures are going to have different beliefs about what is moral to some degree because human beings are always influencing one another and shaping their societies in their own ways rather than conforming to the universal law that one can understand if one applies reason to the issue, the way Plato and Aristotle did. Just because a culture has a certain position on an action being moral and another culture has a different position on it does not in any way lessen the truth that universals exist. People can refuse to acknowledge them or argue against them all they like, just as Euthyphro does. The point is that a moral society works towards knowing the truth rather than running from the labor. Euthyphro runs from it because he senses that it might end up making him question his own sense of righteousness, and he would rather not do that. Ultimately, however, it does come back to God, for there has to be a higher power that has authored this rule that people can ascertain with their reason. This is why Socrates directs the