Plato Piety Essay

In an intelligent and morally lived life, philosophy should be the backbone to the person’s nature in living in this world. In order to be successful in this way of living the person must engage in Socrates's, Murphy’s and Plato’s discussions with the possibility of not understanding the reasons behind their failures to achieving this notion towards life. With their words in mind a philosophical attitude should play the role of stimulating oneself with consciousness on the objectivity and subjectivity in this world. In one of Plato’s dialogues called Euthyphro, Socrates and Euthyphro, are discussing the challenges that both are facing in fulfilling the ability to be of piety, in other words doing good in the eyes of the God’s and in the eyes of the people. The two both come to …show more content…
The question in both their minds is “What is piety?” and so Socrates then tells Euthyphro that “I must become your pupil” (5a-5d) this is interesting because Socrates doesn't know anything about this, but Euthyphro says he does, Socrates probably does not expect, as we do not, that Euthyphro can answer his questions. We might even consider this dishonest of Socrates; but he does give Euthyphro the benefit of the doubt and he does take him at his word. In the discussion that takes place about piety in relation to a philosophical mind in a morally lived life, Socrates dismisses Euthyphro's distinction between service to the gods and service to people. In the first place, he doesn’t believe that one's duty toward a divine being should be regarded as something that is separate from his duty toward his fellow companions. On the other side, he holds that the only true way of creating service to God consists in doing what one can to promote the moral and spiritual development of human beings. Second, Socrates defines the purpose and function of religion as something that is quite different from the view expressed by Euthyphro.