PHIL 2020 Chapter : Books Of Plato
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What is piety: universal definition (of piety) Meletus accuses euthyphro of two things: corrupting the youth by telling lies, telling lies about the gods. If you say someone is lying, you must know the truth. Euthyphro claims, just as meletus, that he knows what is right by the gods. Socrates wants to be the student as always and he asks euthypro what is piety . 1st definition of piety: what im doing , prosecuting his father, evidence, zeus prosecuted his father, means he is god like. He does like him: socrates doesn"t know if the story is true, euthyphro says he knows its true. 2nd definition of piety: what is dear to the gods , gods are conflicting, example. 3rd definition of piety: what is dear to all gods , piety = god loved, x=y, god loved is what is god loved. Thucydides: history of the peloponhesian war about sparta sacking athens.
