What does Socrates ask Euthyphro to teach him? Why does he claim he wants to learn this?
Socrates asks Euthyphro to teach him the difference between just and unjust, pious and impious, holy and evil. Socrates wants this knowledge for preparing in his trial against Meletus. 5. What is “piety,” from the perspective of this dialogue? (In other words, what are they actually talking about?) Socrates and Euthyphro are talking about whether or not it is just that Euthyphro is prosecuting his father for the murder of a murderer. I think the justice they’re talking about is more religiously just than lawfully just. 6. Identify the four attempts Euthyphro makes to answer Socrates’ central question, and explain why each attempt fails. 1) Euthyphro claims that whatever is dear to the gods is pious, and what is not dear is impious. Socrates countered that, like humans, the gods will quarrel and most likely have different ideas about what is pious and what is not. 2) Pious is what the all the gods love and impious is what all the gods hate. Socrates then questions the reasoning for the
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