The Euthyphro dialogue

Question 1

The Euthyphro dialogue

Answer 1

is a paradigm portrayal of Sophistry: Socrates is engaged in Elenchus, Eristic discourse, ending in Aporia!
Refusing to accept the deliverances of ‘Greek Sunday School’, Socrates asks if Piety is a real thing that all the gods acknowledge as piety or if Piety has no reality independent of the God’s loving ‘it’.

Question 2

Christian Intellectualists

Answer 2

concede that God’s omni-attributes (i.e., power, knowledge, perfection) have rational limitations. God cannot sin!

Question 3

Chritian voluntirist

Answer 3

Admit that humans can have no knowledge of God’s nature, but only a dim (but sufficient) awareness of his WILL. Morality or justice is whatever God wills; sin is whatever he wills. Murder can be both good and bad depending on who is doing it and why

Question 4

Plato’s Divided Line

Answer 4

helps make the appearance/reality distinction more vivid.

Question 5

The Euthyphro problem

Answer 5

Is a problem of definition

Question 6

Allegory of the cave

Answer 6

Not everyone will achieve ‘knowledge’ or understanding in this world. Many people will languish in ignorance below the horizontal line in the world of perception, opinion, and belief. Plato uses the Allegory of the cave to illustrate both the epistemological and moral predicament of the many and the rewards of the few.

Question 7

justified true beliefs

Answer 7

The argument is that an opinion can rise to the status of knowledge provided it is both justified and true. This has come to be known as JTB Theory.

Question 8

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