T 2/3 Plato cont. 53-61

1. What is Socrates’ objection to Euthyphro’s third definition of piety, that what all the gods love is pious, and the impious is what all the gods hate?

2. What is the fourth definition of piety found in the dialogue? Why is it prematurely abandoned?

3. What is the fifth definition of piety, and what objection does Socrates raise against it?

Teleology and Mechanism (photocopies)

1. How does teleology explain the process of change that occurs around us in both living beings and the physical world?

2. How does mechanism, another type of causality, explain the process of change?

3. Why are evolution and big bang theory mechanistic theories?