Euthyphro

Professor Irven Plato’s Euthyphro Plato’s Euthyphro is an avid discussion at King Archon’s court between Socrates and Euthyphro about the definition of piety. During their conversation they share their reasons for coming to court. Socrates was being charged for impiety by Meletus while Euthyphro had come to prosecute his father for unintentionally killing Euthyphro’s servant for drunkenly murdering one of Euthyphro’s slaves. Socrates flatters Euthyphro, suggesting that Euthyphro must be a great…

For this paper I will be discussing Socrates’s Euthyphro Dilemma. Socrates offers this argument, in the form of a dilemma, to defend the view that the following premises disprove the Divine Command Theory (DCT) when accepting either: (a) is an action morally right simply because God commands it, or (b) is God commanding these actions because he recognizes that they are right (Peterson Class Slides). If Socrates’s argument is sound, it would prove that DCT— the idea of being morally right is…

Theory says that an action is only good if it is commanded by God. But, because of this one-sided argument posed by divine command theorists, this might not always be the case. On a grand scale, Divine Command Theory is very flawed, as per the Euthyphro Dilemma. One reason that divine command theorists are flawed might be because that it is not really plausible that every good virtue on Earth is good because God commanded it. This is because if every virtue was good because it was commanded by…

wrote about his life. Plato wrote many dialogs about Socrates including “Apology”, “Crito”, and “Euthyphro”. We can look at these dialogs and not only realize what kind of person Socrates was, but also how Plato looked up to Socrates. We can Socrates’ views in the dialog “Euthyphro”. “Euthyphro” explains the discussion that took place between Socrates and Euthyphro at the court of Athens. Euthyphro was questioning Socrates as to why he was being put on trial.…

In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates introduces a problem to Euthyphro asking whether “the pious [is] being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is being loved by gods” (Plato 12). One can better understand this concept by relating the Euthyphro Dilemma to the Divine Command Theory and examining the potential philosophical implications associated with the two while indicating their errors. The Divine Command Theory states that morality is “somehow dependent upon God” and…

In Plato's dialogue, Euthyphro, and exchange takes place between Socrates and Euthyphro famously known as Euthyphro's Dilemma. Socrates is on his way to court and runs into Euthyphro on the way. After telling each other the reason for them being there, they have a discussion on the nature of piety. Socrates asks, “Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” This dialogue is typical of Plato’s early dialogues in which Socrates, using the…

In Euthyphro, Euthyphro tells Socrates he is prosecuting his own father for having accidentally killed a murderer. Euthyphro feels obligated to prosecute his father, against his family’s wishes, because the gods would want him to, and it would be impious for Euthyphro to let his father slide. Socrates asks Euthyphro what the definition of piety is. Euthyphro asserts that piety is prosecuting people for the wrong they have done, and not doing so would be impious. Socrates asks for a more…

The Fourth and Fifth of Euthyphro's Definitions to Piety In the fourth definition of Euthyphro in Plato's dialogue of “Euthyphro”, he describes piety is as a “servants show to their master” (Plato 71). meaning the one should follow the god's ways, like in a way in how a priest would follow the words of the gods in what could be good or evil. Furthermore, Euthyphro could be suggesting that attending to gods is piety (good), meaning doing things that would please the gods would be seeing as goods…

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…

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…