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date: '2023-09-13'
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  - Conclusions
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Euthyphro

- What is piety? Socrates asks for the one form that makes every pious act pious, so he can use it as a standard for judging actions (6d–e).
- Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because the gods love it (10a)?

Socrates

- Euthyphro agrees that the gods love the pious because it is pious. Then “loved by the gods” cannot be what piety is. Being god-loved results from the gods’ loving, while the pious is loved for what it already is (10d–11a).
- So “what the gods love” names something that happens to the pious. It does not say what piety is. The standard he wants has to explain why the gods love it (11a–b).

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