I thought this dialogue was very interesting. Even though, I didn't understand it fully, I thought it was very enlightening. To me, this was a contest to find out who the wiser person was out of Euthyphro and Socrates. Euthyphro claims to be the wisest when it comes to knowing what is pious and impious. But does he really? Because Socrates brings up good counter arguments and questions that make Euthyphro change his claim many times. The question I was asking myself was, "how do either of them know really what is pious or impious?" They go back and forth so many times that I think "pious" loses some of it's meaning. Is the whole question of this dialogue "what makes something pious" or something else? I questioned Euthyphro many times, but one specific time when Socrates was bringing up the gods and whether or not if they loved something did that make it pious or impious because they loved it???? Such confusion right there. But then Socrates goes on to say later on that same page that "then the god-loved is not the same as the pious... nor the pious the same as the god-loved..."(13). So, is pious a thing of its own now?
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Socrates is, in most if not all of the dialogues, the original "devil's advocate", if you will. He does not claim to know the answer to any of his questions; he just asks them to prove someone else does not have the answer. His wisdom is found in his knowledge that he knows he doesn't know (hence, Socratic wisdom). Good thoughts.
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ReplyDeleteI was getting lost in how many definitions were given for Piety. I think it definitely did make it lose some of its meaning. and yes... lots of confusion over here too.
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