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The Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro takes place outside the court of Athens. It is one of the most interesting dialogues of Plato as it focuses on an important philosophical theory. Socrates and Euthyphro met by chance outside the court. Socrates was going for trial on the charges of corrupting the youth of Athens and for refusing to acknowledge the gods of state. On the other hand, Euthyphro was at the court because he was prosecuting his father for a murder of a slave. At the same moment, Socrates praised Euthyphro and suggested that he must be great expert in religious matters as he was prosecuting his own father on such a doubtful charge. The conversation progressed and Socrates started asking a lot of probing questions to produce a contradiction in the reasoning of Euthyphro. This eventually lead to the Euthyphro’s dilemma which was "Is good, good because god loves it or does the god love it, because it is good?"(Wrenn) This dilemma ultimately questions the Divine Command Theory. Given that the

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