I also feel that he would make Euthyphro explain in detail what kind of acts would not only please the Gods but how would it please them. Socrates in the early pages asks Euthyphro something very similar towards this. He asks Euthyphro to explain to him how it is one god may love something or someone and how one god may hate something or someone. He makes a good solid statement and question here because Euthyphro is left out to dry, he doesn't have an answer to this. ... If Euthyphro would come with an answer it would probably be something still undefined and very much unjustified wi...

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Both Socrates and Euthyphro are there for court business. ... Euthyphro is there to bring charges against his father for murder. A man died while in the custody of Euthyphro's father and although the man himself was considered to be a murderer, Euthyphro feels that his father is guilty of murder. ... The concept of holiness emerges in the dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro when Socrates attempts to question Euthyphro about the difference between piety and impiety. ... He believes that Euthyphro is best equipped to help him with his defense because no one has challenged Euthyphro'...

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Euthypro concludes that "E: I would certainly say that the pious is what all the gods love, and the opposite, what all the gods hate is impious" (Euthyphro). ... Socrates was not satisfied by the vague and unfulfilling answers that Euthypro and often would ask him questions such as " What then do we say about the pious, Euthyphro? ...

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Socrates' argumen,t "if the god-loved and the pious were the same, my dear Euthyphro, then if the pious was being loved because it was pious, the god-loved would also be being loved because it is god-loved" (Euthyphro, 11a), is in response to Euthyphro's second definition for piety that claims that the pious is the same as the god-loved (Euthyphro, 9e). ... For example, Euthyphro agrees that 1) the pious is being loved by the gods because it is pious is true (Euthyphro 10e), but disagrees that 2) the pious is being loved by the gods because it is god-loved is true (Euthyphr...

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Using the example in the Euthyphro, this relationship is seen. Euthyphro is seeking to imprison his father for the murder of a servant. ... Euthyphro's action could be considered both just and unjust. ... For the same reason that a pen sitting by itself can be considered both long and short, Euthyphro's actions can be just and unjust. ...

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Socrates was a man of many wisdoms and deep thoughts. Although he is now highly praised in the modern world, in his day he was shun by the majority of people. Socrates did not agree with the idea of democracy, but he accepted the fact that it was the law. In his own philosophy he believed that a ...

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