What is the purpose of Socrates' argument between 7 and 9d? What does this tell us about piety? How is this a "philosophical" argument?
9/11/2007
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What is the purpose of Socrates' argument between 7 and 9d? What does this tell us about piety? How is this a "philosophical" argument?
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The purpose of Socrates’ and his argument between 7 and 9d is to tell Euthyphro that you think your doing right now is pious according to your own actions, but what I (Socrates) personally think about the gods is on a different perspective than yours.
First off, Euthyphro believes that anybody that is killed unjustly should pay the consequences, even if that murderer is his own father. Euthyphro thinks that this would be the most pious action to do. Socrates on the other hand thinks that Euthyphro is too critical with his own actions and thoughts. He goes on talking about the differences between gods: that the gods are at odds with each other. Socrates also uses Methodic Doubt and tries to make him to realize that if all the gods think your actions would be pious, wouldn’t they all agree with each other’s perspectives also and make everything beautiful and good? If not, why would this world be filled with the beautiful and the ugly, and the good and the bad?
From these few passages, Socrates’ argument could be represented as a philosophical argument because he is trying to make Euthyphro realize that his actions are not a correct principle of reasoning, but actually disapproves logic. Euthyphro is just using his side of the story to assume that the killing was unjust, but doesn’t say or try to think why his own father could commit such a crime. Euthyphro goes with whatever he thinks is just but doesn’t dig in for reasons why his father’s actions are unjust. Socrates on the other hand uses a means of questioning to try to get a form of reasoning from Euthyphro’s actions by responding back to him saying to “try to show me a clear sign that all the gods definitely believe this action to be right” – 9b.
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