1. Euthyphro is appearing at the court because he is going to prosecute his father for the murder of one of his servants.
2. In the event of 4b-4e, Euthyphro and Socrates are discussing a case of Euthyphro’s father. Euthyphro says that one should simply be punished injustice regardless the victim is a stranger or a relative and regardless of who does it. Later we get more details of the case. The servant, was a murderer himself for having killed a family slave in drunken anger. Then Euthyphro’s father ties him up, throws him in a ditch and send a messenger to inquire from the priest what should be done. Since it takes a while for the messenger to go and return, the victim dies of hunger and cold. Both Euthyphro’s father and relatives are mad at him for prosecuting his own father for murder, even though his father isn’t the murderer. Looking at this, I do not think Euthyphro is acting …show more content…
On the contrary, god-loved is because it is being loved by the gods. What is pious is something different from what is loved by the gods. Something pious gets loved because it is pious, and something that is being loved by the gods is being loved of because it gets loved. If what is being loved of by the gods were the same thing as what is pious, and if what is pious gets approved because it is pious, then what is being loved of by the gods would get loved because it is being loved of, when in fact the opposite is true. Alternatively, if we accept that what is being loved of is being loved of because it gets loved, then the pious, too, would have to be pious because it gets loved, and not the other way around.
5. The relationship between piety and justice is that, piety is a part of justice. According to Socrates, “where there is piety there is also justice, but where there is justice there is not always piety, for the pious is a part of justice” (pg.15,
2. In the event of 4b-4e, Euthyphro and Socrates are discussing a case of Euthyphro’s father. Euthyphro says that one should simply be punished injustice regardless the victim is a stranger or a relative and regardless of who does it. Later we get more details of the case. The servant, was a murderer himself for having killed a family slave in drunken anger. Then Euthyphro’s father ties him up, throws him in a ditch and send a messenger to inquire from the priest what should be done. Since it takes a while for the messenger to go and return, the victim dies of hunger and cold. Both Euthyphro’s father and relatives are mad at him for prosecuting his own father for murder, even though his father isn’t the murderer. Looking at this, I do not think Euthyphro is acting …show more content…
On the contrary, god-loved is because it is being loved by the gods. What is pious is something different from what is loved by the gods. Something pious gets loved because it is pious, and something that is being loved by the gods is being loved of because it gets loved. If what is being loved of by the gods were the same thing as what is pious, and if what is pious gets approved because it is pious, then what is being loved of by the gods would get loved because it is being loved of, when in fact the opposite is true. Alternatively, if we accept that what is being loved of is being loved of because it gets loved, then the pious, too, would have to be pious because it gets loved, and not the other way around.
5. The relationship between piety and justice is that, piety is a part of justice. According to Socrates, “where there is piety there is also justice, but where there is justice there is not always piety, for the pious is a part of justice” (pg.15,