Toby Eugene Bollig
Toby Eugene Bollig. “Is Circumventing the Euthyphro Dilemma By Appealing to God's Nature Problematic?.” A Priori, vol. 3, 2018, pp. 1–24.
The Euthyphro dilemma has plagued theistic metaethics and undermined moral arguments for the existence of God throughout history. More recently, this has led a number of philosophers and theologians to try to circumvent the dilemma by appealing to God's nature. I argue that these appeals are prima facie problematic because they lead to a metaphysical constraint on God's will, commands, and actions which seems to conflict with divine omnipotence and divine free will. However, I argue that these apparent issues can be resolved by treating metaphysical constraints to God's omnipotence in the same way that many philosophers treat logical constraints to His omnipotence and by asserting that this constraint is compatible with divine free will.