The research essay (assignment) should be a maximum of 1000-1500 words. Please adhere to
the word count!
You need to include at least six academic sources. Including in-text references (year and page
numbers) and a complete bibliography!

The notion of religion as a precondition for morality is deeply entrenched, at the same time highly
contested. In Platos famous Euthyphro, Socrates famously asks whether the gods love good
action because it is good, or is good action good because it is loved by the gods? Socrates clearly
favoured the former proposal, yet some thinkers argue that morality is dictated and indeed
unthinkable without God.