Plato's Euthyphro - Which comes first: God or Morality?
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceJeffrey Kaplan teaches philosophy (UNC Wilmington) and posts his whiteboard lectures; known for unusually clear, faithful reconstructions of classic texts; careful reading of the dialogue's central argument.
What you'll learn
Plato's Euthyphro dilemma: is something good because God commands it, or commanded because it's good?
Video by Jeffrey Kaplan, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of Introduction to Ethics
Go deeper
- Plato: Complete Works (Hackett, ed. Cooper)Plato: Complete Works, the standard one-volume edition
- The Republic, Plato (Penguin Classics)Plato's Republic
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