Rachels proposes this quote as an objection to DCT, “do the gods command it because it is right?” (51). This quote portrays that God is deducing something to be morally right based on something else, apart from himself. A sophisticated euthyphist would say that because God recognizes something to be right and it is no longer up to him to command actions. The source that God deduced the command from is what determines the action to be morally right or wrong—not God. Philosophical educator Crash Course, stresses that if the rules of morality are taken from something other than God, then why can others not just find that source and figure out morality for themselves (Crash Course). God no longer needs to command actions if the knowledge of it is available outside of him. This eliminates God from DCT, leaving their view without a commander. DCT is thus false because it is no longer up to God to command moral actions and DCT strictly states the opposite. Although DCT is flawed, Divine Command Theorist could possibly object the Euthyphro Dilemma in efforts to prove their
Rachels proposes this quote as an objection to DCT, “do the gods command it because it is right?” (51). This quote portrays that God is deducing something to be morally right based on something else, apart from himself. A sophisticated euthyphist would say that because God recognizes something to be right and it is no longer up to him to command actions. The source that God deduced the command from is what determines the action to be morally right or wrong—not God. Philosophical educator Crash Course, stresses that if the rules of morality are taken from something other than God, then why can others not just find that source and figure out morality for themselves (Crash Course). God no longer needs to command actions if the knowledge of it is available outside of him. This eliminates God from DCT, leaving their view without a commander. DCT is thus false because it is no longer up to God to command moral actions and DCT strictly states the opposite. Although DCT is flawed, Divine Command Theorist could possibly object the Euthyphro Dilemma in efforts to prove their