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A 5 page paper which examines Euthyphro’s attempts to answer Socrates’ question, “What is the pious and what the impious, considers why Socrates finds each response unsatisfactory, explains how the “Euthyphro question” figures in the dialogue, how Euthyphro answers it, and discusses whether or not Euthyphro gives a correct answer to this question. No additional sources are used.
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asks tough questions such do people seek to be moral because they wish to be pious or because they wish to honor God or the gods concept of morality and
piety? The dialogue evolves from Euthyphros intent to prosecute his own father for murder. A laborer who worked for the family had, while in a drunken stupor, murdered
one of their domestic servants during an argument. Euthyphros father promptly tied up the murderer and deposited him into a ditch, then journeyed to Athens to inquire as what
to do with him. Because he had been unattended to, the man subsequently died, and Euthyphro contended his father was responsible for the death and should be subject to
prosecution. A heated debate then commences between Socrates and Euthyphro as a result of the sons prosecution of his father. Euthyphro believes his father is guilty of murder
and that it is inconsequential whether or not the victim himself was a murderer. His angry father and his family maintain that "a son is impious who prosecutes a
father for murder" (4e), to which Euthyphro retorts, that "shows... how little they know what the gods think about piety and impiety" (4e). Intrigued by this conclusion, Socrates
implores Euthyphro to share with him his definition of piety, distinguishing between pious and impiety. He replies, "Piety is doing as I am doing; that is to say, prosecuting
any one who is guilty of murder, sacrilege, or of any similar crime-whether he be your father or mother, or whoever he may be-that makes no difference; and not to
prosecute them is impiety" (6a). Socrates dismisses this as unsatisfactory because he is providing only examples of piety and impious, not defining the terms. Euthyphro is merely stating
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