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A perplexing dilemma.

Publication: Free Inquiry
Publication Date: 01-AUG-04 		Format: Online - approximately 924 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A perplexing dilemma.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Article Excerpt
While I appreciate the contribution that FREE INQUIRY makes to the cultural dialogue, I am disappointed, at times, by the quality of some of your articles and op-ed pieces.

Massimo Pigliucci's op-ed, "Socrates and Religious Morality," (June/July 2004) is a case in point. Pigliucci obviously enjoys the opportunity to jar naive intro to philosophy students by constructing Plato's duly famous Euthyphro dilemma--an academic setting for "shock and awe." Yet his confidence in that dilemma is questionable. Philosophers have demonstrated that this dilemma can be overcome. Sec, for instance, atheist John Mackie's analysis in his Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, pp. 229 ff., or Paul Helm's essay in the Encyclopedia of Ethics, pp.

1082-83. Furthermore, the last century of philosophy reflects a good deal of confusion about matters moral once the religious foundations were removed. And secularists such...

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