Socrates Rhetorical Analysis

Hailey Argueta

02 / 08 / 2018

PHIL 103 Q

Deal

Exegesis Paper

When we talk about Socrates in Euthyphro he gives an initial argument against Euthyphro’s third definition of piety which is “what’s loved by the gods is pious, and what’s not loved by the gods is impious” (7a). Socrates believes it’s a bit skeptical that Euthyphro doesn’t know how to define piety. Euthyphro is waiting outside Athenian court waiting to charge his father with murder, while Socrates is waiting as well outside the Athenian court because he is being charge with impiety. They both start off a discussion of piety. So, what is piety? Socrates asked this question to Euthyphro wanted him to clarify whether the quality of piety for sure could be that a good act will please

Socrates uses methods through Euthyphro like Dialectic. Dialectic refers to “the art of investigation or discussing the truth of opinion.” This dialogue helps to understand the nature of piety and how it connects to morality. So, “what’s loved by the gods is pious, and what’s not loved by the gods is impious” (7a) but the same thing is “seemed like both hated and loved by the god is like both god-hated and god-loved. “ (8a) These same two things could be pious or impious? I object with the argument against this conclusion because we have to different definitions here with piety. Euthyphro is presser to define what piety is, to over think the action he is about to commit by charging his father is pious or impious. He comes up with “what’s loved by the gods is pious, and what’s not loved by the gods is impious”. How we can we be a sure that what he is doing in fact is impious and not pious. What if the fact that he Chagres his father with murder can lead to his father being murder? Wouldn’t that be impious and not pious because he wants to make a good to the gods but with that good he can commit an ungodly action. But what if Euthyphro is in fact pious because like he stated, “anyone who has unjustly killed another should be punished” (8b) and he in reality commits a good for the gods. We in fact cannot defined piety because it is an inexhaustible. Could piety be just the justice that has to do with trending to the gods? Socrates goes against this argument because Euthyphro contradicts himself and makes this discussion go back to square one. Many different definitions of piety and going back and forth. Without the defined meaning piety, we wouldn’t have the meaning of how to be pious or impious. and how to fulfills responsibility with both god and