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Euthyphro

1) What main questions governs the discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro?

What is referred to as piety (devotion) and what known as impiety (sinfulness)

2) State Euthyphro's five successive responses to this pair of questions.

According to Euthyphro, piety is taking legal action to sinners, what is lovely to gods, what

is accepted by gods, justice, which is attending to the gods and learn how to please the gods in

words and deeds by praying and making sacrifices. On the other hand, impiety is going against

god by doing what is not pleasant to him, the opposite of righteousness.

3) Describe what happens to each of these responses in the discussion.

Socrates is not contented with all the responses because they fail to define holiness in his

perspective and therefore criticizes them. He rejects the first definition because they are not

righteousness and piety, not providing essential pious actions. The second definition of

Euthyphro is piety is what is pretty to god. Though the definition expresses a general form,

Socrates disagrees with the second response because god fights among themselves what is

considered pleasing. According to Socrates, the third response focuses on the fact that he is on

trial because of improvising and innovating about the gods. Socrates argues that pious is neither

the same nor alike in every action that impiousness. Pious represents us in one form.

4) State five general propositions about human religious activity, or the gods, which

Socrates and Euthyphro appear to accept in the course of their discussion.

In the course of the discussion, Socrates and Euthyphro accept the proposing of, offering

sacrifice and the gifts to the gods, praying to god while requesting what we want, producing

food from the land, tributes of honor and war victory ministration of gods.

5) What general propositions about piety and impiety (i.e. propositions which could

also be asserted of justice and injustice, beauty and ugliness, and the other

De Luca 2

"forms") do Socrates and Euthyphro agree upon? (You should be able to identify

at least five.)

Socrates and Euthyphro agreed upon fairness and unfairness, moral and evil, honorable

and disgraceful, deliverance and destruction, benefit and hurt, and fear and reverence