[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law

The Ten "commandments" are a breakdown of what that means
in some fairly specific categories for those who are sloshing around in the mud looking for what "the right thing" looks like.

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In the _Euthyphro_, Socrates refuted the idea that God MUST be the source of moral judgments. Let's see if I can paraphrase (and hope that scholars will jump in to correct me).

Euth:I know why things are called good and bad.
Soc: Wow! How so?
Euth:Good things are those things pleasing to the gods.
Soc: But the gods don't all agree about what is pleasing, do they?
Euth: Okay then, good things are things All THE GODS LOVE.

Soc: Big problem, dude. If "things all the gods love" and "good" are the same, then the good would be loved because it was good. Same with "things all the gods love": the "things all the gods love" would be loved because they were "things all the gods love."

On one hand, the "things all the gods love" was loved by all the gods because it was loved by all the gods. On the other hand. the good was good because it was being loved by all the gods.

Two different meanings for one definition.

Euth: This is boring. I'm outtahere. Got some stuff to do in the real world.

Soc: Suit yourself.

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