Ethics

Ethics

Introduction

Over the centuries, many philosophers have claimed that ethics is merely the codification of political ideology, enabling to perpetuate a power structure. Moreover, all the popular ethical beliefs comprises of those that are either held by the dominant class or those that the dominant class can impose on the submissive classes. (Philosophy of religion, 2008)

Discussion

The Euthyphro is one of Plato's early dialogues which took place in 399 B.C, held between Socrates and Euthyphro in Athens outside an old court house. Here, Euthyphro had come to court in order to get his father indicted for murdering a household slave. This ultimately led ...