 | Plato, Henry Cary - 1877 - 566 pages
...and thus concede, both to ourselves and others, that if any one only says that any thing is so, we shall allow that it is? or must we examine what the...don't understand what you mean, Socrates. Socr. I will endeavor, then, to express myself more clearly. We say that a thing is carried, and carries ; that... | |
 | Th Breitter - Greek Languages - 1879 - 218 pages
...also to use them, since the possession is no advantage.30 — Is that which is holy 37 loved by God because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved ? — Socrates was accused by the Athenians for having corrupted young men. CHAPTER XLV. HYPOTHETICAL... | |
 | Plato, Henry Cary - Philosophy, Ancient - 1882 - 590 pages
...and thus concede, both to ourselves and others, that if any one only says that any thing is so, we shall allow that it is ? or must we examine what the...don't understand what you mean, Socrates. Socr. I will endeavor, then, to express myself more clearly. We say that a thing is carried, and carries ; that... | |
 | Plato - 1907 - 220 pages
...gods hate is unholy, and what they all love is holy. Euthyphro. Why not ? Socrates. But note again, is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods ? Euthyphro. I don't know what you mean. Socrates. I mean like this. Is that which is beloved,... | |
 | Plato, Xenophon - Philosophy, Ancient - 1918 - 402 pages
...Soc. Well, my friend, we shall be able to say better soon. Now consider this question : Is holiness 10 loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved? Euth. I do not understand you, Socrates. Soc. Well, I will try to put it more clearly. Can we not speak of... | |
 | Plato, Harold North Fowler - 1913 - 648 pages
...SOCRATES. We shall soon know more about this, my friend. Just consider this question : — Is that which is holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods ? EUTHYPHRO. I don't know what you mean, Socrates. SOCRATES. Then I will try to speak more... | |
 | Plato, Xenophon - Philosophy, Ancient - 1913 - 384 pages
...Soc. Well, my friend, we shall be able to saj better soon. Now consider this question : Is holiness 10 loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy becau: it is loved? Euth. I do not understand you, Socrates. Soc. Well, I will try to put it more clearly.... | |
 | Curtis L. Carter - History - 1973 - 158 pages
...the Euthyphro. Plato's Socrates presses the question, in the particular case of holiness (or piety): "Is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods?"13 If "justice" were to be defined in terms of the interests or prescriptions of any temporary... | |
 | Plato - Philosophy - 1984 - 372 pages
...that this time what I say is true. toa soc. Perhaps we shall learn better, my friend. For consider: is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy? Or is it holy because it is loved by the gods? EUTH. I do not know what you mean, Socrates. soc. Then I will try to put it more clearly.... | |
 | David Novak - Religion - 1992 - 209 pages
...been so persistently raised that they must be addressed. Socrates's question to Euthyphro is this: "Is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because the gods love it?" 13° His answer is that the holy (to hosion) as a subset of cosmic justice (to dikaion)... | |
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Is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy ; or is it holy, because it is loved ? Euth. I don't understand what you mean, Socrates. 
