Sincereity

            Since Plato questioned the realtionsip between morality and god in the Euthphro philosophers and theorists alsike have tried to prove the possibility of morality without God. On of the most famous and controversial examples of this is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's statement that "If God is dead, everything is permitted". In other words, each individual is free to do as they please if these is no moral lawgiver to guide them. In todays western society most who belive in God embrace some form of Judeo-Christianity. In this traditional religious outlook, the world was created be an omnibelavalent, omniscient and omnipotent personal God. Therefore, God is conceived of as the divine moral lawgiver. The moral laws, which we are free to accept or reject, have then been releed to us through the bible, prophets and the clergy. They are however, most clearly stated in the Ten Commandments. These are seen be thesists as the moral code, which we should live by. It is thought that because of this, morality and religion are inseparable and that morality can only be understood via religion. The view that God crateed the moral law leads onto the devine command theory. According to this view an action which is morally correct is that which is commanded by God. The divine command theory has an appealing feature in which it solves a major ethical question, "how can morality be objective"? The Devine Command theory clears the grey by establishing a unambiguous system of right and wrong. This means that instead of morality imposed by society and personal opinion, it is sourced from a higher being with supreme intellect. However, the devine command theory has some obvious problems. Firstly, if one does not belive in God, being told thatGods commands as morally correct are irrelevant and of no use to solve moral dilemmas. Seccondly, the problem which Plato broght to light which has come to be known as the 'Euphtyto Dilema' .