Themes‚ Ideas & Arguments Piety Piety is the central topic of discourse in Euthyphro. Socrates and Euthyphro spend most of this dialogue debating back and forth‚ attempting to define what might be common to all holy acts. Despite this unified focus of their conversation‚ however‚ the two men remain unable to formulate any clear‚ uncontroversial definition of piety. Euthyphro makes several attempts‚ defining piety as prosecution of civil offenders‚ as that which is dear to the gods‚ as that which
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Divine command theory is the view that morality is somehow dependent upon God‚ and that moral obligation consists in obedience to God’s commands. My goal is to prove that the Divine Command Theory is false because of the belief argument and the Euthyphro dilemma. The first problem that stands out to me is the belief argument. This argument says that if DCT is true‚ then morality exists only if God exists.
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Tyler Parsons 9:15 class The Human Ideal Human Ideal is a very subjective idea across the board. There are many factors that influence a person’s perspective on a prefect human ideal. The most prevalent factor seems to be the culture of the society. The culture and the society I was raised in brought me to the finalization of my personal human ideal. People should live to fulfill the ultimate good of happiness without stepping on others to reach it and at the same time to avoid extreme and take
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have sparked many debates and examinations of the way we live our lives even today. In the three dialogues Defence of Socrates‚ Euthyphro‚ and Crito‚ written by the philosopher Plato‚ one can find evidence that Socrates was not an enthusiast for democracy. The following will consider this evidence as a means for showing the anti-democratic faces of Socrates. In Euthyphro‚ Socrates questions Euthyphro’s prosecution of his father for murder. Their dialogue is a result of Socrates attempt to understand
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To say that a man is defined by what he does in his life is an understatement when you think of two of the greatest philosophers ever. Each man was very respected while they were living but when you have hundreds or thousands of people still talking about you after your death there is something very special to say about that. Socrates and Rene Descartes spent their life looking for the truth. They looked for the perfect answer to every question because both of them wanted the answers no one could
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Socrates is known as the father of Western Philosophy and Descartes is known as the father of Modern Philosophy. Both are key members in shaping the world today. Socrates taught us to question everything and about critical thinking. Descartes taught us that humans are thinkers and that true knowledge is acquired through reason. Their lessons have inspired many different people who have made a foot print in history. Even today‚ one can see their influence guiding our information. Socrates has taught
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throughout all of the rituals and offerings made to both the Olympians and to the lesser gods. While there are varying characterizations and notions about what constitutes piety‚ in Euthyphro by Plato‚ an attempt is made to formulate an ultimate definition for what is pious and what is impious. According to Euthyphro‚ the most reasonable explanation of piety is tending to the gods‚ showing reverence and respect for them‚ or ultimately‚ doing anything benefitting to the gods. Piety can be narrowed
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Nicomachean Ethics‚ Second Edition. Translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company‚ INC.‚ Indiana: 1999. 2. Nelson‚ Brian R. Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Enlightenment. Prentice Hall‚ New Jersey: 1996. 3. Plato. Euthyphro. Laurier Course Package‚ Professor V. Burke. p. 14. 4. Velasquez‚ Manuel. Philosophy: A Text With Readings: Seventh Edition. Wadsworth Publishing Company‚ Toronto: 1999.
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Asides from having a good education‚ a man in Ancient Greece should value and ignore certain actions. As I have stated earlier a man should value education‚ but asides from that he must be a pious person. We can see in the dialogues between Euthyphro and Socrates that piety should be valued a lot. In other words a man should value
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There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead on the tracks there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are some distance off the tracks on a footbridge standing next to a very large or fat man; we will call him the portly fella. You can push the man off the bridge‚ and his body will fall onto the tracks and stop the trolley from killing the five people‚ but will kill the portly fella. You have two options: (1) Do nothing
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