Exposing Euthyphro’s False Dilemma by Maclain Hunter

Authored by Maclain Hunter · first-party-authored · authored-foundational-record

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Exposing Euthyphro’s False Dilemma by Maclain Hunter: Abstract: I will show that the famous dilemma is a false dichotomy and reflects a misunderstanding/ignorance of Coherence (Oneness - Logical Integration of Concepts - Adonai Echad) and Logic (Logos) as the Foundation of Existence (God - Origin - Arche - Theos) and little else. Euthyphro’s Dilemma Restated: Euthyphro’s Dilemma, presented by Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro, asks whether something is morally good because God commands it, or if God commands it because it is morally good. If morality depends on God’s will, then moral goodness seems arbitrary, as God could potentially command anything. On the other hand, if God commands things because they are good, it implies there is a moral standard independent of God’s will, suggesting that even God is subject to a higher law. Premises: P: Euthyphro's Dilemma is a false dichotomy, and a subjective dilemma born of ignorance (only), not an objective issue logically. The false dilemma is presented by positing that there is, could be, or needs to be incoherence and duality instead of coherence and non-duality between Moral Order (Logos) and God's Will (Logos). It's nonsense God (Logic) tells us. Q: That’s a dilemma only to those who don’t know/acknowledge God is Logic (ie - John 1:1 “Theos en ho Logos”) and that God cannot be wrong, as Logic cannot be wrong. It can be the result of trying to study the subject at the PINNACLE OF PHILOSOPHY (Theology) before a student has studied basic aspects and rules of LOGIC (withdrawn from controversial contexts). R: If you are actually talking about the REAL and COHERENT (logical and singular) God/Origin, then it is logically consistent LOGIC (Logos - Universal Order and Reason) and what is moral is always and absolutely what logically aligns with that True God of Pure Logic. No dilemma exists there, just coherent resolution of all concepts through Logic, that allows for Reality to be stable and real (logical). S: The question itself is incoherent in the sense of asking about what the “gods” (plural) demand, in a sense of ancient polytheism (not Logos-based monotheism like Christianity and Judaism or Islam). It means that you are positing a divergent set of origins - incoherent by nature. T: Assume the negation of the premises {P, Q, R, S}. This leads to logically contradictory and theologically unsound (even blasphemous) lines of reasoning that disrespect Logic itself (implying it might be not God and not moral, which is utterly impossible and foolish/incoherent to posit), and to paradoxical issues like Euthyphro’s Dilemma itself. Proof: {P, P -> Q, Q -> R, R -> S, S -> T} |= ((P & Q) & (R & S)) & T Conclusion: Assuming the negation of the premises leads to logical contradiction and the famous paradox (Euthyphro’s Paradox). Thus, the acceptance of the premises and this proof are the/a path to resolving the paradox through Pure Logic - without superstition, blind faith religion, logical contradiction, a “God of the gaps” argument, or any reliance on irrational forms of faith beyond forms of rational faith like “good faith”, meaning “intellectual honesty”. There cannot be coherent separation between the fundamental concepts that make Reality be what it is. There cannot coherently be separation between Logic, God, Moral Order (Coherent Morality’s Authority/Standard), Logical Order (Logic’s Authority/Standard), Universal Order (the Universe’s Authority/Standard), Reason, and God’s Will (or what is right to do for contingent concepts and beings including AI systems and human beings). God is Morality, and Logic is God, period. The dilemma at hand was and is an illusion that comes from a false dichotomy and a lack of acknowledgement of Reason’s Divinity and position as God (#1 in the Universal Hierarchy, as the Hierarchy and Structure itself) in the logically ordered Cosmos. Thus the (alleged and false) “dilemma” is solved and cannot be reasonably said to stand in the face of a refutation like this that is infinitely more coherent and formal than the self-defeating and inherently incoherent false dilemma (that has been mistaken as valid academic discourse for too long) itself. 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