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Euthyphro – initial questions. Characters? Setting? Reasons for location? Question? Who asks and why?. What is piety?. “…the pious is to do what I am doing now” (5e) “what is dear to the gods is pious…” (7a) “the pious is what all the gods love…” (9e)
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Euthyphro – initial questions Characters? Setting? Reasons for location? Question? Who asks and why?
What is piety? • “…the pious is to do what I am doing now” (5e) • “what is dear to the gods is pious…” (7a) • “the pious is what all the gods love…” (9e) -Is it (x) pious because it is loved by the gods, or -is it (x) loved by the gods because it is pious?
Piety is… • “the godly and the pious is the part of the just that is concerned with the care of the gods…” (12e) • Piety is “a kind of service of the gods” (13d) • “I say that if a man knows how to say and do what is pleasing to the gods at prayer and sacrifice, those are pious actions…” (14b) • Piety is “a knowledge of how to give to, and beg from, the gods.” (14d) • Piety is “of all things most dear” to the gods. (15b)