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    What is piety and impiety? This broad question is exactly what Euthyphro and Socrates debate about the true meaning of these two words. When society hears the word piety‚ they think of worship for God or religious fulfillment of sacred obligations. However‚ when Socrates attends the king’s court on charges of impiety by Meletus‚ he encounters Euthyphro there who is going to prosecute his own father for accidentally killing one of his workers. Even though Socrates feels that Euthyphro has courage

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    Socrates v. Euthyphro: What Is Piety? In Athens Greece‚ there was a very wise man considered by the Athenians who lived through the Periclean age (around 400 BC) and his name was Socrates. For most of his life time Socrates was a highly well respected philosopher; who loved teaching philosophy of life to anyone who listen in the street of Athens. All was dandy until his friend Chaerephon had told him that “He went to Delphi at one time and ventured to ask the oracle – as I say‚ gentlemen‚ don

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    In Plato’s EuthyphroSocrates questions Euthyphro‚ a religious expert‚ who he runs into outside of a courthouse in Athens. Socrates was being indicted on the charges of corrupting the youth‚ and Euthyphro was prosecuting his own father for murder. Socrates was bewildered as to why Euthyphro would indict his own blood of a crime. In an attempt to explain to Socrates why it was the right thing to do‚ Euthyphro proclaims that he is acting piously by taking his father to court. Euthyphro adds that his

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    Piety is not composed of the same properties as being loved by the gods for the property of being loved by the gods fail to capture the nature of piety. Plato within the Euthyphro ponders if things are piety from their nature or from being god loved. In short it is a question of if the morality of good is external to god or if he commands it. Euthyphro argues that what is pious is loved by the gods because it is pious‚ however in doing so he forces the gods to appeal to an external force above themselves

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    Throughout the passage Euthyphro written by Plato a discussion arises dealing with the question “What is piety”? This question arises after a man named Euthyphro is found walking into a courthouse preparing to prosecute against his own father who took part in a murder. His friend Socrates eventually confronts him when he sees him and once the story is explained to Socrates and once he calms down due to being surprised that Euthyphro is prosecuting against his own father he asks Euthyphro what exactly he

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    Euthyphro In this essay I will explain the concept of the holiness emerges and why it takes a prominent position in the conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro. I will also explain the three definitions that Euthyphro uses in his response to Socrates and then present Socrates’s refutation of each of Euthyphro definitions. Also this essay will test my ability to develop my own argument as to what I think Socrates’s goal is in this dialogue. How do you know that is his goal? What features of

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    of F. In Plato’s book Euthyphro‚ Plato argues that one can not have a specific knowledge claim by using the elenchatic method in order to show how one’s belief in F can lead to inconsistencies within their argument. One implication of his claim is the idea of piety is what is loved by the gods‚ but since the gods argue on what they love‚ the idea of piety can stem that while it might be loved by one god‚ it might be hated by another.

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    The conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro takes place at the marketplace. Euthyphro is on his way to charge his father for murder‚ and Socrates is going to his own trial‚ because he was accused of corrupting the minds of the youth. Before going into his trial‚ Socrates asks Euthyphro‚ who claims to be a spiritually enlightened prophet‚ what exactly makes something of piety or impiety. He asks this‚ because he wants to be seen as Euthyphro’s student‚ and so that he can use Euthyphro’s teachings

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    In an analysis of Plato’s Euthyphro‚ Peter Geach claims that Socrates commits the Socratic fallacy when he refuses Euthyphro’s first definition of piety. Socrates rejects the definition given because it does not give a formal definition of what piety is‚ but instead offers examples of things and actions that are pious. Geach believes that this is a substantial fallacy committed by Socrates‚ one that may prevent him from getting at the truth of the matter. I will first expand on Geach’s Socratic fallacy

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    name] [Subject] [Date] Socrates Arguments in Euthyphro and Knowledge about Piety Introduction  Euthyphro is written by Plato which is an explicit example of definitional dialogue of Socrates. The written piece intends to define the concept of piety or holiness. Socrates came to know that Euthyphro is going to prosecute his father accused of a murder and was defending his action to be pious. This urged Socrates to ask a clear definition of piety from Euthyphro which leads to the series

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