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Plato thinks that we can know right and wrong through
{ 1 } - no way whatever; we can't know right and wrong.
{ 2 } - the commands of the gods.
{ 3 } - the interpretation of an ideal observer.
{ 4 } - one's own mind.
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Plato thinks that we can know right and wrong through
{ 1 } - no way whatever; we can't know right and wrong.
{ 2 } - the commands of the gods.
{ 3 } - the interpretation of an ideal observer.
{ 4 } - one's own mind.
That old excuse won't work for those in the Platonic world. You know what is good and bad, you just do. Don't try to deny it!
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Plato thinks that we can know right and wrong through
{ 1 } - no way whatever; we can't know right and wrong.
{ 2 } - the commands of the gods.
{ 3 } - the interpretation of an ideal observer.
{ 4 } - one's own mind.
In the Euthyphro, Plato says that right and wrong depends on the intrinsic nature of the thing -- and not on godly whims.
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Plato thinks that we can know right and wrong through
{ 1 } - no way whatever; we can't know right and wrong.
{ 2 } - the commands of the gods.
{ 3 } - the interpretation of an ideal observer.
{ 4 } - one's own mind.
I see how you might think this. Socrates seems like the final authority on everything, the quintessential ideal observer. But Plato thinks that we all are as hip and knowledgeable as his buddy Socrates.
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Plato thinks that we can know right and wrong through
{ 1 } - no way whatever; we can't know right and wrong.
{ 2 } - the commands of the gods.
{ 3 } - the interpretation of an ideal observer.
{ 4 } - one's own mind.
The truth is within us.
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