Chapter 7 Self-Quiz

. Euthyphro meets Socrates before the court because

he is being prosecuted for the murder of his father.

he is prosecuting his father for murder.

he has charged Socrates with impiety.

his reputation as an expert on piety has been challenged, and he is in court to defend it.

. Socrates describes Meletus as

an older man who is arrogant and meddlesome.

someone well known to himself.

a person who knows what is most important: Caring that young people be well brought up.

someone who couldn't be very wise, since he is bringing Socrates to court.

. The main thing Socrates wants Euthyphro to teach him is

why it is just to prosecute your father for murder.

why the gods quarrel.

the form of justice.

what makes something pious.

. Examination of Euthyphro's second proposal, that the pious is what the gods love, reveals

that Euthyphro's stories about the gods lead him, together with this definition, into contradiction.

that there are gods who don't agree.

that we don't know what the gods love.

that it only tells us how the gods regard the pious, not what it is.

. The problem with defining piety as what all the gods love is that

they don't all love the same things.

it gives only an external characteristic of piety.

love can mean many things.

there is only one god, so it cannot be pious to make reference to many.

. Those Socrates identifies as the earlier accusers

are the ones who complained about him to the Oracle at Delphi.

he later identifies as Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon.

have charged him in court with corrupting the youth.

will be the most difficult to defend himself against.

. The oracle at Delphi told Socrates' friend that

Socrates was the wisest man alive.

Socrates should spend his life questioning the Athenians about virtue.

no one was wiser than Socrates.

only the god was wise.

. One thing Socrates does not say during his defense speech at the trial is that

life is the greatest good.

a good man cannot be harmed.

it is wicked and shameful to do wrong.

it is not difficult to avoid death.

. The reason Socrates concludes that death is not an evil is that

whatever the many believe is probably wrong.

his voice did not hinder him in anything he did that day.

it is either a dreamless sleep or conversation with those that died before.

it is not wise to fear something when you do not know whether it is bad.

. Socrates refuses Crito's offer of escape from prison because

he is already seventy years old and would die soon anyway.

it would be dangerous for his family if he tried to escape.

he doesn't want to be a burden on those who would have to take him in after the escape.

in escaping he would do injury to the laws of Athens.

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