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Euthyphro

Yusuf Nussi
Xiufen Lu
Philosophy 100g
First Writing Assignment
28 September 2012

GROUP 1: Euthyphro

Euthyphro met Socrates near the king's archon's court, and they had a few chats why they are both at the same place. That was when Euthyphro told Socrates that he was prosecuting his father for murder and he claimed he is doing it for the gods. But when Socrates asked him what is pious and impious, Euthyphro said what is dear to the gods is pious and what is not is impious. But Socrates rejected the definition by saying there more than one gods, and these gods are at odds with each other, so therefore what is consider beautiful to one god might ugly to the other, just as what is ...

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came about after his first definition was rejected by Socrates where he said piety is whatever is loved by the gods. But here Euthyphro is saying that the pious is what all the gods love, and the opposite, what all the gods hate, is the impious. But Socrates asked him whether is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious or is it pious because it is being loved by the gods? Then he further explained by using the "something being carried, the thing being led etc." Example. Where he said there is a difference between something being loved, and something loving. Because if we change something, or something is been affected in any way, it is not being changed because it is something changed be instead it is something change because it is being changed. So therefore it is been loved because it pious and it is not pious because it is being loved. But here Euthyphro contradicts himself by saying it is pious because it is loved by the gods not because it is loved makes pious. ...

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