Socrates

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Philosophy

 

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Frances W

 

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December 8, 2014

 

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University

 

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Socrates lets Euthypro off the hook on this one by aggreeing?only for purposes of continuing the discussion?that the gods may be supposed to agree perfectly with each other. (Notice that this problem arises only in a polytheistic culture.) More significantly, Socrates generates a formal dilemma from a (deceptively) simple question: "Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" (Euthyphro 10 a) Neither alternative can do the work for which Euthyphro intends his definition of piety...
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If right actions are pious only because the gods love them, then moral rightness is entirely arbitrary, depending only on the whims of the gods. If, on the other hand, the gods love right actions only because they are already right, then there must be some non-divine source of values, which we might come to know independently of their love...
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