[lit-ideas] Re: Euthyphro
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:20:53 EST
Are you familiar with a very dated (copyright 1957) book "Ethics", by A. C.
Ewing? (It was still being used in University classes in the 1980's...) If
so, what do you think about it? And what current books on the subject would
you recommend? "Ethics" attempts to address the question of where a moral
system or a system of ethics comes from or arises. When I was studying such
things, when the dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was a very cut and dried
distinction made between "ethics" and "morality". Is that still the case in
current philo?
Julie Krueger
wishing I remembered everything I studied
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12/9/2006 2:59:58 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _rpaul@xxxxxxxxx
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Eric:
That's where Socrates demolishes the notion that "good" is fundamentally
based
in God (or the gods), nicht wahr?
Not exactly. It's the one in which he asks whether something is pious (that's
the Jowett translation) because it's loved by the gods or whether the
gods love
it because it's pious. If you substitute 'good' for 'pious' you might see one
difficulty with the view that religion determines the right and the
good, or at
least a problem for those who think it does.
Perseus doesn't have a Greek text of Euthyphro, although it does have
an English
one. (The text John McCreery cited has some spelling glitches and
lacunae; maybe
there's a slightly cleaner one somewhere.)
Robert Paul
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