3. Socrates is at court because he is under indictment by a man named Meletus for corrupting the young and for not believing in the the gods that the city believes in.
5. Euthyphro's family is angry that he is prosecuting his father for murder on behalf of a murder that his father hasn't done. They also think that is impious for a son to prosecute his father for murder. Socrates thinks that Euthyphro should make sure that he truly knows what piety and impiety so he doesn't wrongly bring his father to trial. Euthyphro is not worried about the rightness of his actions because he thinks that he firmly believes that he has an accurate knowledge about piety and based on what he knows about piety, his accusation is correct.
7. It is definitely important to examine the connection between wisdom and human action. Wisdom guides and influences human action. Examining this connection allows us to see that without wisdom, our actions would be meaningless because we would be doing things without having a direct purpose or a clear idea of what we are doing. Possessing true wisdom leads to be make better human actions. While possessing more ignorance than wisdom can lead to humans making poor or wrong actions. For example, Euthyphro did not possess true wisdom regarding the subject of piety. This lead him to prosecute his father. This action could be bad because if he doesn't know what piety is, his father may not have done anything wrong and is being prosecuted wrongly. …show more content…
If Euthyphro does not know what Piety is, he is accusing his father of something that he himself doesn't correctly understand. One implication of this ignorance is that it makes his argument invalid because he doesn't know what he is talking about. Another implication of this ignorance is that his accusation, based on his understanding of Piety, is false and his father is going to be wrongly
5. Euthyphro's family is angry that he is prosecuting his father for murder on behalf of a murder that his father hasn't done. They also think that is impious for a son to prosecute his father for murder. Socrates thinks that Euthyphro should make sure that he truly knows what piety and impiety so he doesn't wrongly bring his father to trial. Euthyphro is not worried about the rightness of his actions because he thinks that he firmly believes that he has an accurate knowledge about piety and based on what he knows about piety, his accusation is correct.
7. It is definitely important to examine the connection between wisdom and human action. Wisdom guides and influences human action. Examining this connection allows us to see that without wisdom, our actions would be meaningless because we would be doing things without having a direct purpose or a clear idea of what we are doing. Possessing true wisdom leads to be make better human actions. While possessing more ignorance than wisdom can lead to humans making poor or wrong actions. For example, Euthyphro did not possess true wisdom regarding the subject of piety. This lead him to prosecute his father. This action could be bad because if he doesn't know what piety is, his father may not have done anything wrong and is being prosecuted wrongly. …show more content…
If Euthyphro does not know what Piety is, he is accusing his father of something that he himself doesn't correctly understand. One implication of this ignorance is that it makes his argument invalid because he doesn't know what he is talking about. Another implication of this ignorance is that his accusation, based on his understanding of Piety, is false and his father is going to be wrongly