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Questions on Plato’s Euthyphro pp. # 108-123 in Abel (pp. #4-18 in older editions)

1. What charge is Euthyphro bringing forward, and against whom?

2. Describe the details of the case surrounding Euthyphro's charges.

3. Towards the beginning of the dialog, what is Euthyphro's opinion of his own familiarity with the distinction between things pious and impious?

4. What is Euthyphro's first response to Socrates’ question, “What is piety”?

5. What is Socrates’ objection to Euthyphro’s first attempt to answer this question?

6. What is Euthyphro’s second response to Socrates’ question, “What is piety?”

7. What is Socrates’ point when he says, “The same things then are loved by the gods and hated by the gods, and would be both god-loved and god-hated.”

8. How does Socrates amend Euthyphro’s definition, and why does he do so?

9. Socrates says to Euthyphro: “Then the god-loved is not the same as the pious, Euthyphro, nor the pious the same as the god-loved, as you say it is, but one differs from the other.” Explain what Socrates means.

10. The following exchange occurs between Socrates and Euthyphro:

Soc. The pious is then, Euthyphro, pleasing to the gods, but not beneficial or dear to them?

Euth. I think it is of all things most dear to them.

Soc. So the pious is once again what is dear to the gods.

Euth. Most certainly.

What is the problem here?