PLATO, EUTHYPHRO

SECTION
CONTENT
Reference
I. INTRODUCTION:
Occasion and social pleasantries 		2a1–5d7
II. FIRST DEFINITION.
Euthyphro: 'to prosecute offenders against religion' 		5d8–6e9
III.





 		SECOND DEFINITION.
  • 'what is dear to the gods'
  • emendation of the second definition
  • acceptance
  • Socrates' refutation
 6e10–11b5

6e10–8b6
8b7–9e3
9e1
9e3–11b5
IV. INTERLUDE 11b6–11e5
V.






 		THIRD DEFINITION -the genus of 'holy'
-The definition:
           First differentia
               First statement
               Amended statement: 'holy' is a species of 'just' 		11e4–14a10
11e4–12d4
12d5–14a10
12d5–13d4
13d5–14a10
VI.





 		FOURTH DEFINITION

          -Euthyphro: 'holy' is the science of prayer and sacrifice'
               This is backsliding into the kind of definition that was offered before
               the Interlude, and shown to be inadequate in terms of procedure. 		14a11–15c10
VII.





CONCLUSION
  • aporetic: no final formulation of a valid definition.
  • Suggestion is made that it is Euthyphro's laziness (want of attention) that causes
    him not to state clearly what he supposedly knows better than anyone.
 15c11–16a4



Some Questions on the Euthyphro
7/18/2003
January 28, 2010 12:12 PM

John Paul Adams, CSUN
john.p.adams@csun.edu

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