What are Euthyphro’s various attempts to define piety (or holiness) and what are
Socrates’ objections to these definitions? Who gets the better of the argument?
Why? What definition for piety would you give Socrates?
2. If no satisfactory definition is proposed, what is the use of the entire discussion in
this dialogue? How could you claim that the dialogue was still, in a way, a success?
3. What exactly is wrong with Euthyphro’s first definition of piety? Does it satisfy
Socrates? What kind of account of piety would satisfy Socrates? Can you give me an
example with a different concept?
4. What is The Euthyphro about (what’s the back story, what’s the issue)? Who are the
interlocutors? How do they meet?
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