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Socrates And Euthyphro Dilemmas

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This is a dialog between Socrates and Euthyphro. Euthyphro is at court ready to charge his father with murdering his own slave. Socrates questions the intensions behind Euthyphro’s actions. It seems impious to go against his father, but it also seems pious to go against evil and wicked actions. At first Euthyphro thinks he knows what piety is and what it means to be holy: he thinks that piety is what the gods like, and impiety is what the gods don’t like. This reasoning causes a dilemma: is something pious because the gods like it, or do the gods like something because it is pious? Unfortunately, what is pious to one god may not be pious to other gods so it is unclear what actions are pious and what actions are not. This also displays a dilemma
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