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• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE EUTHYPHRO OF PLATO

  Euthyphro in the dialogue concedes that his definitions have not turned out as he wished. We may well think, however, that he should have stood his ground, and pointed out that Socrate s was equivocating with the wo rd ‘because', using it in two different senses. If we say that the godly is the godly because it is loved by the gods, we are talking about the word ‘godly'; the ‘because' invokes our stipulation about its meaning. If we say that the gods love the holy because it is holy, the ‘...