Katie Shore
Art & Culture of Greece
Spring 2012
Due: Week 2

1. Why is Euthyphro going to court?
Euthyphro is going to court because Meletucs has an indictment against him. The indictment is for making innovations in religious matters and comes before the court to slander you. Knowing such things are easy to misrepresent to the majority of people 2. What is Euthyphro’s first definition of piety?
Euthyphro offers as his first definition of piety what he is doing now, that is, prosecuting his father for manslaughter 3. Does Socrates accept the stories about the gods?
No he does not. 4. What is Euthyphro’s second definition of piety?
Euthyphro's second definition: piety is what is pleasing to the gods (6e-7a). 5. What is Euthyphro’s third definition of piety?
The third definition reads: What all the gods love is pious, and what they all hate is impious 6. What dilemma does Socrates force upon Euthyphro?
Socrates asks whether gods love the pious, because it is the pious, or the pious is the pious, because it is loved by the gods (10a)? In other words: do the gods love something because it is pious, or is something pious because the gods love it?

7. What is Euthyphro’s fourth definition of piety? he then points out a little later, this is still not enough for a definition, since piety belongs to those actions we call just or morally good. 8. Does Euthyphro ever adopt the other horn of the dilemma?

Suppose we put the Euthyphro dilemma into a monotheistic context. Suppose further that we use right and wrong rather than pious or impious. The dilemma would then look like this: [Try to fill in the blanks.] * (1) If acts are right (or wrong) because God commands (or prohibits) them, then morality is ____________. And, if acts are right (or wrong) irrespective of God’s commands (or prohibitions), then morality is _______________ of God. * (2) Either acts are right (or wrong) because God commands (or prohibits) them, or they are right (or wrong) irrespective of God’s commands (or prohibitions).
Therefore, either morality is ____________ or ________________ of God. Which side do you come down on?

My Questions: 1. What is the family tree and how are these Gods related? 2. They talked about that he was going to court and going to be brought up on religious charges. What religion are we talking about during this time period?