The Plato's dialogue Euthyphro takes place outside the court of Athens. It is one of the most interesting dialogues of Plato as it focuses on an important philosophical theory. Socrates and Euthyphro met by chance outside the court. Socrates was going for trial on the charges of corrupting the youth of Athens and for refusing to acknowledge the gods of state. On the other hand, Euthyphro was at the court because he was prosecuting his father for a murder of a slave. At the same moment, Socrates praised Euthyphro and suggested that he must be great expert in religious matters as he was prosecuting his own father on such a doubtful charge. The conversation progressed and Socrates started asking a lot of probing questions to produce a contradiction …show more content…
According to the philosophy of religion, "If morally good acts are morally good because they are commanded by God, then they must be commanded by God before they are morally good. It must be that God makes his decision what to command in a moral vacuum" (Qtd. Philosophy of religion). For example, If murder is wrong because God forbids it, then before he forbids it, there is nothing wrong with it. So, God's reason for forbidding it can't be that it's wrong. Divine command theory implies that God cannot have any moral reasons for giving the commands he does. His commands are morally arbitrary. Furthermore, whatever god decides is just as good as any other decision. God had no moral reasons to prefer loyalty to adultery, or generosity over selfishness. From a moral perspective, he could have commanded anything because any set of commands would have been as good as any other. As a result, If there are no moral considerations or facts, before God decide what to command to humans, then for obvious reasons God's commands can be neither informed nor approved by morality (Qtd. Philosophy of