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## EUTHYPHRO 6D-9B AND ITS MISINTERPRETATIONS Those who write about the arguments of the Euthyphro usually, and understandably, treat in detail the complexities of 9c-llb while passing quickly over the comparatively straightforward argument identified by my title. The result has been that mistaken opinions of the nature of the argument have been allowed to flourish; and once such opinions gain currency, the less likely it is that the mistranslations off which they may feed will be corrected. The point of 6d-9b is, of course, to consider this answer of Euthyphro's to the question 'What is piety?': What is agreeable to the gods is pious, and what is disagreeable to them impious. [6elO-7al; Tredennick's translation] 1 By appealing to the well-known stories of differences in attitude amongst the gods, Socrates has no difficulty in showing that ... upon this view the same things, Euthyphro, will be pious and also impious. [8a9-10; Jowett's translation] At this point the modern reader's logical knee-jerk comes into operation and he thinks 'Reductio ad absurdum\' For instance, Albert Anderson says explicitly, 'The force of Socrates' argument is ad absurdum' (p.469), and Norman Gulley, 'Th

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Author

Stewart Candlish

Published

1983

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)