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Full Idea
Do the gods too hold different opinions about what is right, and similarly about what is honourable and dishonourable, good and bad?
Gist of Idea
Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable?
Source
Plato (Euthyphro [c.398 BCE], 07e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.27
| 335 | Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? [Plato] |
| 336 | Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato] |
| 337 | It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato] |