MaaS (Morality as a strategy)

Kenny Collins
6 min readJul 30, 2022

Is the good “good and just” because God wills it or does God will it because it is good and just?

This is the key question behind the Euthyphro dilemma (adapted by Leibniz), which pertains to the idea of being “moral” or “ethical”. The question implies that either God’s will determines what is moral — meaning that if God wanted to make evil things like murder or torture moral, He could; or that morals determines what God wills — meaning that God is not omnipotent, since he lacks control over this concept of “morality”. Neither seem like comfortable answers.

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Kenny Collins

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