Examples Of Piety In Euthyphro's '

The general point Socrates is trying to make about action when he begins speaking on the idea of carrying and being carried, seeing and being seen, and of led and being led is basically that “something” becomes “something” when it is directly affected by something else. He explains the difference in his speech when he says “It is not being seen because it is a thing seen but on the contrary it is a thing seen because it is being seen; nor is it because it is something led that it is being led but because it is being led because it is something led.” He is essentially saying that the action of seeing is what makes something “seen,” that the action of carrying is what makes something “carried,” and that the action of leading is what makes something “led.” …show more content…
Socrates deduces, from Euthyphro’s explanation, that he is saying that the pious is loved because it is pious, but not pious because it is being loved and that the “God-loved” is loved by the Gods simply because it is being loved and not being loved because it is God-loved. He concludes that, if the pious and the God-Loved are the same, then, because the pious is loved because it is pious, the God-loved would also be loved because it is God-loved, meaning the pious is actually being loved because it Is God-Loved, not because it is pious.
Socrates is again referring to this idea of “action,” or something becoming something because it is affected by something else. He is saying that piety cannot be loved by the God’s simply for being what it is, but that it becomes God-loved because it is, in fact, affected by being loved by the