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I. |
INTRODUCTION:
Occasion and social pleasantries |
2a1–5d7 |
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II. |
FIRST DEFINITION.
Euthyphro: 'to prosecute offenders against religion' |
5d8–6e9 |
III.
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SECOND DEFINITION.
- 'what is dear to the gods'
- emendation of the second definition
- acceptance
- Socrates' refutation
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6e10–11b5
6e10–8b6
8b7–9e3
9e1
9e3–11b5 |
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IV. |
INTERLUDE |
11b6–11e5 |
V.
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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.
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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
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VII.
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CONCLUSION
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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
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