Euthyphro's Dilemma

The Commander The Children of our Parents Is any type of command theory, really a recipe for morality? If people are doing something, simply because it is commanded, then they are not doing it because it is moral, or good, nor can they be moral or good by simple being slaves. For a command, it's just an in order, and the virtue of a General does not decent through the solder by ignorance. Now this suffices for children, because they do not yet know any better nor have they come to their own mind. And although we are the children of our parents, we should not remain children of our parents, for we ourselves must eventually learns what is actually good or bad either carry the torch or spark a new fire. If we found a book that claimed to be the word of God, and the command of this God was to kill our own children, would we not thing something intuitively wrong. Or at least better or worse than other commands? But If we can recognize even that, do we not then know at least something about morality, itself, and in ourselves, if only just a little… For someone may argue, that not all people agree with that, so it is perhaps subjective, but do we really need to all agree that something is true, for to be true despite we believe; To be objective. Surely not, for some people are born psychopaths, and cannot feel empathy at all. And some people are born blind. And so synonymously, some people are more or less intelligent, more or less moral, and more or less right or wrong. For like the brightness of the sun, in strong straddled contrast to the dark depths of space, the light shines as gorgeous and great for each and every one of us. The Good Guy Let's grant, for the sake of argument that we know there is a good loving person, who is commanding us. If we know that they are good, do we not know something of about goodness as well? That is, if we were to teach a child that God is good, and the child asked, what is the goodness, which God possesses? Would it be in anyway informative to repeat that God is good, or God is great, and that the Good or great is god? Put it this way. Perhaps you have a friend, who knows nothing about golf, and we explained to him, that “golf is a game played with golf balls”. Would he be any nearer to knowing what golf means? Here's another example, if we were referring to a blue box, and someone replied, "I am colorblind! What is blue?” Would it be of any service to respond, “The box is blue”? That is, would they be any more knowingly of the color blue, just because the know what a box is... Or is it a fact that they must know something of “that” which is blueness, that is, the conscious perception of blue before they could understand any reference to a blue box? It is unlikely. Perhaps impossible. And so, synonymously, if anybody could understand the expression that "God is good", they would first have to recognize something about “Goodness" or "morality", itself separately, from what is said to possess it. It may be more or less confused, with something else more or less, for different people, but is it not necessary for the possibility of knowing what it means to say that anything is moral or good. ..?? For surely this must be granted, if it is even possible to know what even ourselves mean when we say something is good, or is right or is moral, or just. If that was not true, we could not even know what this debate is about, as every time the term good or morality comes up it should appear hollow and empty, a type of foolish gibberish perhaps... <(89) But doubtless it is. And I hope nothing less but to persuade you of the truth of this. That very truth, that you yourself know already in yourself, at least in some way, but perhaps have problems putting your finger on it, and or expressing it with the right words but nonetheless grasp what it is, with your conscience. The Big Grant,(you owe me buddy) But lets be brave, an bold, blitzs and bolt, bursting forward to bust this blue box open for a better glance at the best Pro has to offer. Let’s assume that there in fact exists a maximally great and even moral loving being. The Big GOD. Does granting Pro this gold, actually give more goodies? Does this truth bring us any more closely to knowledge of moral obligations? What is there about such general ambiguous knowledge that could tell us anything about how we should treat each other? For it is granted, openly and willingly by Pro, myself, and any non-polytheist that the Euthyphro dilemma is a problem for deriving morals principle. And that it is a problem, because the gods disagree. But what is it any less of a disagreement, and/or problem if there is one God, but nonetheless many different books, faiths, believes and claims to what God actually, says, wants, knows or orders? For anyone who dares to dream, beyond pure faith, pure chance, pure fate, has the courage enough to see that the problem of polytheism morality reiterates itself through manifolds, manifested, in multi-doctrines of one god.. And so, even if a moral and loving God exist, the fact alone is not enough to base anything related to any religion. Nor any detail on what we ought to do at all... The Soothsayer Sophist: Okay, so there is a Maximally Great moral being, The Fool: Okay….. What about it?? Sophist: Ummm, well, he’s great. The Fool: Yeah I figured that is why you named him, Great Being. Sophist: And he’s maximal. The Fool: Really!!? And maximal eh… Cool. Sophist: And he’s is all, like, Being-like. The Fool: Wow, being like eh.?. … Wait, Why don’t you just call him Greatest being? I mean why bother with the extra Term “Maximally.”It sounds so awkward and unnaturally forced. Sophist: Well I never thought of that? The Fool: For If he is the greatest being is it not already inherent.? Sophist: Mwaha hahahah. It is over for you fool. The Fool: what is? Sophist: The Round. So says my God. Whom is also your God. <(86) The Fool: How do you know that? Sophist: Because he is all like, greatest being….. and stuff. The Fool: What does that tell us.? Sophist: Greatest beingness. <(8D) Whether we like it or not, whether we have faith or not, it is up to us to seek the good, through reason, wisdom and knowledge. Even if that means we must do it the hard way. References. Pure Reason, and real Philosophy.. Straight from the Hill.