ECO100Y5 Lecture 12: PHL202 Notes
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Socrates encounters euthyphro outside the court of athens. Socrates has been called to court on charges of impiety by meletus and euthyphro has come to prosecute his own father for having unintentionally killed a murderous hired hand. Socrates atters euthyphro by suggesting that he must be a great expert in religious matters if he is willing to prosecute his own father. Euthyphro concurs that he does indeed know all there is to be known about what is holy. Socrates urges euthyphro to instruct him and to teach him what holiness is, since euthyphro"s teaching might help socrates in his trial against meletus. Socrates nds this de nition unsatisfying, since there are many holy deeds aside from that of (1): euthyphro suggests that holiness is persecuting religious offenders persecuting offenders. Socrates asks euthyphro instead to give him a general de nition that identi es that one feature that all holy deeds share in common.
