Euthyphro Dilemma Analysis

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The origin of Euthyphro’s Dilemma began with a discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro, Socrates wanted to learn the nature of piety in order to tell the court his action of corrupting the young with impiety was wrong and had come to a realization. With Socrates many lines of questioning for Euthyphro, one specific question lead to the creation of Euthyphro’s argument, known as Euthyphro’s dilemma, an argument that refuses the Divine Command Theory. To better understand Euthyphro’s argument, I will present the similarity between Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the Divine Command Theory, along with the two types of DCT and lastly, explain the version I believe is the most plausible.

Socrates is known to be a very wise man and speaks from the heart. Whenever he talks to a person he questions their answers. By asking several questions to test their knowledge and to see if they know what they’re talking about. He feels that people should think outside the box and theirs more than what the Gods think. People should be able to give out their opinion even if they are right or wrong. But living in Athens everyone believes in the Gods. If you do wrong the Gods will be angry and they will turn their back on you. 
 In the chapter Euthyphro, he was surprise whenever he seen Socrates in the courthouse. Meletus did a lawsuit against Socrate because his been corrupting the youth by teaching them not to believe in gods. They

In “Euthyphro”, Plato dictates to readers a conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro as Euthyphro is exiting the courthouse in Athens. At this point Socrates has been trialed and charged with the crimes of impiety and corrupting the youth he taught, of which included Plato himself, who recorded all of Socrates’ conversations and later founded one of the first universities of the western world. Socrates challenged many of the ideas of his time and in doing so, gathered together as many experts on as many fields as he could find and asked them each to defend what they knew. What triggered this was the Oracle of Adelphi telling him he is the ‘wisest man’. This made very many people unhappy because he had such a strong influence over the youth he taught and lectured to,

Ethical implications arise when a situation deals with principles of morality and resolution is neither right nor wrong. Because of the stress and emotion ethical dilemmas present us with; steps have been recognized to help work through determination. Although each and every situation is unique, a framework for problem resolution along with laws for ethical situations has taken effect.

In The Euthyphro, by Plato, Socrates treats Euthyphro as if he is the teacher but it is in fact, Socrates who is doing the teaching. It shows how Socrates is trying to guide Euthyphro through his own reasoning and attempting to let Euthyphro sort things out for himself. In this, Socrates tries to show Euthyphro his ignorance. The central argument in The Euthyphro, is that Socrates wants to see if Euthyphro is as wise as he claims to be, for Socrates feels that the people in general do not understand piety and impiety. Another argument in this story is based on “The Divine Command Theory of Morality”, which is whether or not, Gods commands are morally right because it is actually right, or if it is right because God commanded it.

Socrates, on his way to court, happens upon an old friend Euthyphro. Socrates was being prosecuted by a young lawyer named Meletus for corrupting the youth; while Euthyphro was in the process of trying his father for the murder of a laborer. Socrates soon begins a conversation with Euthyphro which leads into a discussion on piety and what it entails. Euthyphro cites the gods as the determiners of what is pious, which leads to the deconstruction of the definition by Socrates who proves the premises of the argument invalid.

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Euthyphro's dilemma is presented during the conversation about the nature of piety between Socrates and Euthyphro which was composed by Plato, a student of Socrates. Socrates uses the Socratic method to push Euthyphro to keep coming up with definitions of what piety is. The conversation starts when Socrates asks Euthyphro why he is prosecuting his own father. Euthyphro answers this question by arguing that piety is,"prosecuting anyone who is guilty of murder, sacrilege, or of any other similar crime" (p.10). Euthyphro sees himself as an example of piety because he is punishing wrongdoers. However, Socrates is not satisfied with this definition because it is only one example of what piety is. This leads Socrates to keep questioning Euthyphro

Interpretive essay for Euthyphro Euthyphro, a priest in Plato’s dialogue, strives throughout the reading to teach his religion to Socrates. Since Euthyphro portrays himself to be the most intelligent human to mankind, Socrates believes that he must know every words meaning and that guides Socrates to ask him about a word he is curious about; piety. Piety is something he is very curious about and asks Euthyphro many questions about it. Euthyphro gives five intricate versions of piety, but one of them is peculiar and brings to my attention.

His dilemma is wanting to be happy, as he sees it, because in the beginning he starts to question whether or not he is happy and he wants to know how he can achieve happiness. The reader sees it as him trying to find his way through the severe censorship his society allows that he is (mostly) unaware of

Although Euthyphro redefines piety to fulfill Socrates requirement of generality, Socrates still refutes this third definition. Specifically, he rejects the definition given by Euthyphro because it gives a quality of piety instead of the nature of piety. As such, piety cannot be defined by a quality of itself because a part cannot define the whole. In this paper I will demonstrate how Socrates refutes Euthyphro’s third definition of piety.

Sophocles’ famous play “Antigone” highlights a problem in what was then the prevalent worldview for most pious Greeks, that of Divine Command Theory. Divine Command Theory is a philosophical paradigm, or worldview, which essentially states that an action is good if and only if it has been commanded by a divine entity, which, to quote St. Thomas Aquinas, “all men know as God.” The problem arises in what happens when there exist multiple deities, such as is the case with the Greek and Roman pantheons. Socrates himself argues about this in the famous work Euthyphro, underscoring the fact that this is a problem which has been around for a very long time. It would seem that the existence of multiple deities destroys the possibility of there being a coherent system of morality. What, for example, would be the course of action if one god were to prefer one action which is opposed to another action preferred by a different god? In the Greek mythology which serves as something of a backdrop for Antigone, it was not at all uncommon for the Olympian deities to be at odds with each other about this or that thing, or even outright conflict. Another problem raised by a polytheistic Divine Command Theory is the question “Do the gods command an action because it’s morally right, or is it morally right because the gods command it?” The polytheists must by necessity choose the first option, for reasons that will be explained later in the paper. This paper will take the position that the