Euthyphro's Ethical Issues

A1

Socrates claims that he does not know him, yet has heard that Meletus is young and unknown, describing him as a man with long hair, little facial hair, and an aquiline nose. He also commends Meletus in his charge against him, believing that his concerns are not misplaced and that he likely cares for the well-being of the state.

A2

The charges that Meletus brings against Socrates are that he is corrupting the minds of the youth with his ignorance and he is conjuring up new gods while neglecting to believe in the old ones.

A3

Euthyphro is bringing charges against his father for murdering a servant, named Naxos, of his property who was also a murderer for killing another servant in a fit of drunken anger. As such, Euthyphro’s father had him

A8

The objection that Socrates first makes on Euthyphro’s definition of being pious was that it was not adequate, and only described that what Euthyphro was doing at that moment was pious, but did not quite explain what piety was in general. While this may have been the truth, Socrates argues that many other things are likely to be pious as well, a fact that Euthyphro agrees to.

A9

The second definition that Euthyphro gives is that whatever is dear to the gods is pious, and that whatever is not dear to the gods is impious.

A10

Socrates comes to the conclusion that some of the same things are both loved and hated by the gods, as the Greek gods are very often at odds with each other and almost always disagree with each other on what they hold dear. In fact, many gods dislike what is dear to the other gods and, going by Euthyphro’s definition, this would cause those things that share both the love and animosity of the gods would be both pious and impious at the same time.

Additionally, I have learned more about how arguments were conducted by Socrates, and how analytical he is about specificity in the answers he receives. It is clear from the text that Socrates is quite hard to please in terms of answering the questions he presents, and will take almost every point made to him to its logical conclusion in a dialectic manner. I have also learned much about Socrates as a person, as he makes it clear that he cares much for the pursuit of knowledge in all of its forms and even cares about the well-being of society as he shows when he sympathizes with Meletus over his concerns that Socrates may be having a negative effect on the people and functioning of