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Suppose that, as Euthyphro says (7a, p. 8), what is morally correct is defined by God's love of it.  Then the Euthyphro problem is the dilemma: Does God love it because it is morally correct?  Or, does God's love determine what is morally correct?

Since God's love determines what is morally correct, if there is a God, then some special humans with prophetic abilities must be able to know what God chooses to love or not.

Since God loves what is morally correct, if there is no God, then there is no such thing as morally correct human conduct.

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Euthyphro, Socrates, and Plato lived in society with an official polytheistic religion.  Yet, the Euthyphro problem applies to monotheistic religious thought as well as to polytheistic thought.  How does Socrates's argument show that the Euthyphro problem applies to monotheistic thought?

Socrates reformulates the Euthyphro problem to apply only to cases in which all the gods unanimously agree in what they love and hate.  (9d, bottom of page 11)

Socrates notes that people and gods disagree over moral questions.  Then Socrates asks Euthyphro whether all the gods unanimously have the same moral judgment as Euthyphro about his father's actions.  (9a, top of page 11)

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In the Apology, what did Socrates famously conclude at the start of his inquiry as soon as he began asking other Athenians what they claimed to know about the nature of wisdom and virtue and from careful examination of their answers (21b-e)?

"I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, I do not think I know what I do not know." (21d)

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In Crito, Socrates personifies the laws of Athens and imagines these laws as themselves arguing why Socrates must obey these laws.  Which of the following is not one of the arguments the laws make for why Socrates must obey?

Athens's laws are inherently just, and worthy of being obeyed for the sake of justice (49b).

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