PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Socratic Method
15 Sep 2020
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Socrates assumes that euthyphro must know what piety is, if he"s so convinced that his action is pious. He claims that this could help him in his own trial. But asking the question, what is peiy? has unsettling effects. Piety is what i am doing right now(i. e. charging my father with murder). (p. This is an example, just a definition. If you are calling a number of different actions pious , they must have something in common. Piety is being dear to the gods. (p. 8/7a) The gods are always fighting with each other. If they are fighting with each other, it must be because they disagree with each other. They couldn"t be disagreeing about things that can be measures (bigger/smaller) So, they must be disagreeing about values (piety, virtues). Zeus approves of action x. apollo does not approve of action x. Piety is being loved by all the gods. (p. 11/9c)
