Based on Plato’s Euthyphro --> You can find it online

- Consider the dramatic setting of this dialogue, which takes place before Plato’s dialogue the Apology. What is Euthyphro’s reason for going to court? What is Socrates’s reason for going to court? What do you think Plato is suggesting by this dramatic irony?

- What are the three definitions of piety given by Euthyphro? How does Socrates refute Euthyphro’s first two definitions?


- The question that Socrates poses to Euthyphro to refute his third definition leads to what is known as Euthyphro’s dilemma. What is Euthyphro’s dilemma?


- Bonus. What are the three strategies for refuting a dilemma? Illustrate each of these strategies by refuting a dilemma of your own.



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Long time ago since I studied these works. I can't help you out with the whole assignment since I simply don't remember the details.

"What do you think Plato is suggesting by this dramatic irony?"

The whole of Plato's thought must be read on this background. Socrates is a person put to death by the city for philosophizing.
Socrates is not REALLY a member of any city and especially Athens. He is the only sort of man who is FUNDAMENTALLY opposed to all cities.
This fundamentally opposition must not be made public, if it is made public he WILL be put to death.

Socrates wanted to die, his death is in itself an illustration of the classical and eternal problem.
All societies are bound together by ignorance. On the highest level, prejudice is what keeps societies together.
What is good and evil is what binds individualls together, by having the same "vision" of things. By believing in the same Gods.
Socrates is the one who sees this pattern.

Socrates' reason "disenchants" people of the prejudices which keeps them together with other people.
Those who condemned Socrates are afraid that he will destroy their world.
Any serious knower of these issues understand - and so does Socrates, which is why I said he wanted to die in this manner - that one must not educate people with this kind of knowledge.

Plato shows by the fate of Socrates that there is a tension between society and the wise. He asks the following question: How are the unwise to understand the wise?
There is only two ways:
Either you must enlighten the unwise so they too can become wise, OR,
You have to "educate" the unwise and hide the tension. THIS IS OUR WORLD TODAY, I,e, THIS ALTERNATIVE WAS THE CHOSEN ONE.


To give a short answer to the "Euthyphro’s dilemma:" It is pious because it is loved by the Gods.
There is a hidden thought, which is VERY well hidden:
Plato is the true creator of Gods. And since we respect the Gods (we do so today aswell, it's just not a "supernatural God, our God is called "universal scientific democracy") and live according to their dictates, it is really Plato who guides every aspect of our lives.


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If I had laptop I would do this.... philo is fun.

I might have this essay already done.. gotta check to see if I submitted it via email.

OP, have you understood what I wrote?

Plato is a highest-level esoteric Nihilist (oh shit, wtf am I saying).
Don't tell your teacher this though.

Now, Nihilism is probably the most misunderstood term in the western tradition, maybe also idealism.
It comes in many shapes...