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Kierkegaard and Euthyphro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

David Wisdo
David Wisdo
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Columbia University
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In Plato's dialogue the Euthyphro, Socrates poses a question that has come to be known as the ‘Euthyphro dilemma’. Since the first formulation of this problem is surely the best, I will quote from Socrates himself:

… For consider: is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy? Or is it holy because it is loved by the gods?

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Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 240 , April 1987 , pp. 221 - 226
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

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3 Ibid.,43.

4 Ibid.46.

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