In Plato's dialogue the Euthyphro, Socrates argues against all the definition of piety Euthyphro gave him. ... This is the part when Euthyphro prosecuting his father for murder. ... After a couple of false starts, Euthyphro gives another definition of piety as "what all the god's love" and impiety "what all the gods hate" (Euthyphro, 6). Socrates asks this definition Euthyphro gave him. ... In Conclusion, Euthyphro's definition of piety fails. ...

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The question that arises in Plato's Euthyphro is should people be immune from popular moral belief if they do something that is good and also bad, such as murdering a murderer. In Euthyphro, his father committed the crime of murder, and his claim was that it was just and that the murdered man had killed a slave. Euthyphro's response to this is that it doesn't matter because his father murdered and that is against the law. ... The way that Plato is making Euthyphro think is, for lack of a better term, an "ideal" frame of mind. ...

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" In the courthouse, Socrates met a man called Euthyphro, and later finds out from him that he is prosecuting his father for murder and Socrates believes that Euthyphro has an understanding of religious matters, and even Euthyphro confirms that he is an expert in religious matters, and that is what makes him different from the common man. In response to this, Socrates suggests that Euthyphro could educate him more about religious matters and so Socrates asked him, "How do you define the holy and the unholy?... Euthyphro answers by saying, "well then, i say that the holy is what...

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On trial for offenses against the Athenian public, The Apology finds philosopher and man-about-town Socrates engaged in a noble proclamation of his innocence. Found guilty and sentenced to death, Socrates is isolated to prison. He is confronted by a scheming friend, as he awaits execution. Plato's...

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In order to help us understand the meaning of Philosophy we must first understand the long debates regarding what it means to be human, and how "being" differs from "to be". Does an individual become human or is "that" individual only "that" individual? How does being differ from to be? The fundam...

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As Socrates begins to employ the Socratic Method which we come to know well in the Euthyphro, he personifies the laws of the State of Athens, highlighting the way in which they 'speak' to him. ...

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