The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
Discussing Plato’s Euthyphro. Does morality have to be based on religion? Are good things good just because God says so, or (if there is a God) does God choose to approve of the things He does because he recognizes those things to be already good? Plato thinks the latter: if morality is to be truly non-arbitrary, then, like the laws of logic, it can’t just be a contingent matter of what the gods happen to approve of (i.e. what some particular religious text happens to say). With guest Matt Evans. Learn more.
End song: “False Morality” by The MayTricks, from Happy Songs Will Bring You Down (1994) Read about it.
