Euthyphro dilemma

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…

question those that surround him and to make those people question different aspects of their life. Once Euthyphro explains that his father killed someone and that he has to prosecute him, Socrates immediately questions his actions by saying, “Is then the man your father killed one of your relatives? Or is that obvious, for you would not prosecute your father for the murder of a stranger.” Euthyphro tries to tell Socrates his actions are justified because what he is doing is “pious.” Socrates…

group of people. We think of it as doing a favor for another. Xarij when rendered by God is often called unmerited divine favor. Xarij is not solely a religious word or a secular word but rather it crosses the boundaries of both. Aristotle used Xarij as “Grace may be defined as helpfulness toward a person in need great or small, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of the helper himself, but solely for the benefit of the person helped” Throughout Rome many inscriptions bearing the…

The Greek play Bacchae by Euripides explores the concepts of religious fervor and skepticism and helps a reader analyze how these concepts are opposed to each other, how these ideas are demonstrated in the play and how religious fervor and skepticism are still relevant in our society today. Euripides uses religion, one of the most controversial subjects in the world, to demonstrate the power it has on its believers. Euripides also demonstrates the criticism believers can receive from non…

justice and piety being intertwined, represented by the Furies, and the new view of justice, where the relationship between the gods and the Athenian people plays a less significant role, represented by Apollo and Athena. Both of Plato 's works, Euthyphro and The Republic, deal with the question of what role this relationship should play; Plato 's apparent belief is that piety should be insignificant in an ideally just city, and therefore, strict censorship of old literature regarding the gods…

corruption of the youth, by teaching them to disregard the traditional values of piety, and the authority of the laws of Athens. Plato, one of the primary advocates and followers of Socrates attempts to defend Socrates from these charges in his dialogues Euthyphro and the Apology by characterizing him as a martyr of justice against a city corrupted by fear in realizing its own fragility. Plato’s depiction of Socrates’ defense in both dialogues is ironic and mocking of the city’s principles. This…

When Socrates finds out that Euthyphro is charging his own father with the negligent homicide of a slave, he asks Euthyphro what Piety is. Euthyphro believes that prosecuting his father is his responsibility as he believes that he must act with piety. He declares that no matter what the case, even if it is family who killed someone who was not a relative, this is his first reasoning for the prosecution. Socrates responds to Euthyphro’s reasoning saying that this definition is too broad. Socrates…

In the Apology, by Plato, Socrates makes two particular claims about himself. The first is that he does not know anything and the second is that he is wiser than every man in Athens. While these two claims may seem contradicting to one another because of our traditional conviction of relating wisdom to knowledge, Socrates refutes this correlation with his Socratic Paradox; which instead correlates knowledge with virtue and ignorance with evil. We learn about Socrates’ notion of wisdom through…

Euthyphro is set just before Socrates is prosecuted for creating new Gods and denying the existence of old ones. Socrates speaks to Euthyphro who is about the prosacute his father for the murder of someone who worked on their farm. Looking at the dialog in Euthyphro, key ideas that Socrates puts forward questions their justice system and their beliefs that it’s based on. Socrates questions Euthyphro on why he believes what he is doing is right. Throughout the text Socrates presses for an answer…

Throughout Euthyphro, Socrates and Euthyphro discuss the nature of piety. Socrates asks Euthyphro to explain what the pious and the impious are (5d) and inquires about the form or characteristics of piety (6e). In response, Euthyphro states that “what’s loved by the gods is pious, and what’s not loved by the gods is impious” (7a). Socrates and Euthyphro agree that “the gods quarrel and differ from one another, and that there’s mutual hostility among them” (7b). Following this agreement, Socrates…