Piety

Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro is conversation about Piety between Socrates and young man whose name is Euthyphro. Beginning of book, both two guys meet on the courts. Socrates is under indictment by Meletus for corrupting young peoples and not believing in gods in that the city believes, Euthyphro’s business at court is that he prosecuting his father for the murder of a slave. Beginning of dialog, Socrates and Euthyphro are trying to protect themselves from their situation. Socrates’s pleading…

representation of a member of the society. Nevertheless, it started with the thought of Socrates relating piety and philosophy. And to that, the abandonment of Cephalus at the start dont signifies quitting, otherwise it shows relevance as to how Plato wants to represent piety. As the conversation progress, perceptions revealed some paragons to represent what is good, in relevance with how they viewed piety and philosophical inquiry into justice. So as to this, Darrel Dobbs, the author of the…

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 conclusive definition, so Euthyphro answers that piety is what is dear to the gods. Socrates asserts that not all the gods agree on what is right and wrong, and each god has their own opinion, so there…

What is Piety? Introduction Throughout Plato’s chapter Euthyphro, the main focus is around the definition of piety. This chapter consists of a dialog between Socrates and Euthyphro in which they are concerned with what piety is. They both go back and forth discussing the question while Socrates tries to get a full and worthy answer from Euthyphro. The definition of piety is of special interest to Socrates, as he had just been charged with impiety. He was charged for corrupting the youth of the…

Socrates is in search for answers about piety and the gods’ approval because he is going to be in trial for “disrespecting the gods.” In order to successfully refute Meletus’ claims he asks important philosophical questions about religion and what is truly considered holy by the gods to Euthyphro. Socrates makes an important point about holiness using metaphors about “carrying and being carried, seeing and being seen.” This leads to Socrates’ vague but plausible conclusion that what is holy…

definition of Piety. This was an interest to Socrates for which he was being charged for impiety and facing a trail at the Athenian court to determine his innocence for the crimes he was accused for. Socrates wasn’t sure if the Athenian people actually knew what piety and impiety was. For this reason, Socrates asked Euthyphro “What is piety?” Euthyphro is arrogant and so his definitions were vague. Instead of giving an actual response to the question, Euthyphro gives an example. “Piety is doing…

In Socrates’ argument that piety is dependent on the gods, Socrates uses a series of analogies that are relatable to piety. Socrates describes the physical state of carrying or leading objects and that to be carried or led, they must have been put into that state by something carrying them. Thus, the things being carried are in a state of being carried and since piety is a mental state, it is parallel to the state of being carried. Therefore, something must put piety into the state of being…

Socrates, Plato, and Piety: A Review of Emelyn-Jones’ article C. Emlyn-Jones had been following the scholarly debate regarding why Socrates was really on trial. He mentions two works in specific that provide what he considers mutually exclusive interpretations of the given evidence; one claiming impiety was “a front for the political charge” against the “strongly anti-democratic basis to Socrates’ teaching,” the other positing “a Socrates totally without irony and utterly sincere in his…

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