Morality In Euthyphro's Dilemma

If something is holy because god says it is holy, then God is decreeing that anything can be holy if he has given his approval he could say that murder or rape is totally acceptable, and we wouldn’t be the wiser. This would be completely arbitrary, and we would blindly follow whatever God says because one wouldn’t know what is holy from what is not. But if just God has the power to designate something as holy, then if there are many Gods one God might consider one thing holy and another one might not, for they could have differing opinions about this. People would claim whatever God best suited their interests and could still justify their actions because they are still living according to their God’s beliefs, but it would really encourage

No one person has the right to choose their standard of morality because “holiness” can’t be reached by grabbing onto something tangible. No human being has the right to ask questions. Morality is not a standard of subjective reasoning, it is beyond human reasoning because it is God’s reasoning. People don’t have an opinion on what is good and bad because God emits the holiness and therefore his divine law determines what is good and what is bad. There is a universal definition of morality regardless of age, race, culture, or

In Greece each city had a patron God that was important to them based on what values and traits were admired in the cities populations: ferocity, power, athleticism. These upheld not a standard of morality or holiness, but were more in line with maintaining the honor of the population. Socrates didn’t approve of the Athens gods because he found they didn’t hold up to his moral standards. They weren’t worthy of respect or reverence, they were too much like humans. They stabbed each other in the back and constantly changed their minds about things. Kronos overthrew his father and then Zeus overthrew his own for eating his sons. Kronos thought rebelling against his father was an honorable deed at the time, but didn’t feel that way when Zeus reciprocated his action. The way that Euthyphro justifies his own sense of morality is by saying that he is putting his father to justice as the gods did theirs. So what if the Gods themselves aren’t the standard of morality, but humans standard of morality. This is what Euthyphro himself is doing. He is equating his actions to that of a god, as if he is worthy to compare himself to a god. He is giving the stories he has heard about the gods as his object of holiness, without involving the gods own holiness. His standard of holiness is a faulty interpretation—that off trying his father because his father neglected a slave out in the gutter and he died.