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Euthyphro

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someone in your family does something ethically wrong, what do you do?

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A) you act according to the rule "family is family and friends stick with friends", so you support them in their time of trouble

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B) you act according to the rule "wrong is wrong, and I can't defend someone who is wrong"

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C) I need more information to answer this question

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the best answer is C

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the answers A and B, have something attractive yet distracting about them

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they wrong answers that sound right, yet are too simplified for most real world cases

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A) family is family is something we feel deep in us, something tribal, we feel that it is right in a very deep, emotional way

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appeals to emotion

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B) wrong is wrong is something abstract yet logically true

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to say that wrong is right is absurd, so we understand "wrong is wrong" as a truth beyond question

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appeals to logic

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issue of play

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bad news: your Dad murdered a guy

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but the person he murdered was apparently a murderer

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what do you do?

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A) nothing

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B) call the police

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C) get more information

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the best answer is B

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four questions when analyzing a Greek play

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1. What would you do in this situation?

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2. What should you do in this situation?

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3. What would go through your mind in this situation?

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4. What should go through your mind in this situation?

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many people can correctly predict that they will do the wrong thing in certain situations, even though they know what the right thing would be

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how do you think through an ethical problem when its not just complicated but such that they interfere with reasoning clearly about the case