Comparing Plato's Apology, And Euthyphro

Murphy states that if there are problems in the world, the public will turn to political leaders for help. When those leaders require assistance they turn to the philosophers to aid in making moral decisions. After reading Plato’s Apology, and Euthyphro we are left with the question of what role should a philosophical attitude play in a life that is intelligently lived. The answer is that it is a key component, according to Plato and Murphy, in understanding how everything comes together proving how a philosophical attitude directly relates to an intelligent and morally lived life. Even though these three life styles are directly related I feel as though some explaining of them is necessary to understand why they are such an important role in our lives. Without an idea of what a philosophical attitude refers to, this …show more content…
Intelligent lives, for example, resemble the lives of government officials, politicians, teachers, and even business owners. These are people who would live their lives based on cold hard evidence, but would fail to question the reason why this is true. This is extremely similar to Murphy’s explanation of how an intelligent life must not only question these facts, but must also question why they are accepted as facts. Murphy relays to us “It is not only a question of what is believed but of the way in which and grounds on which it is accepted.”(Murphy 57) Murphy is explaining to the intellectuals that it is not justifiable to merely accept the facts for what they are. This greatly resembles the process that great minds like Einstein use to further develop their research. In some way intellectuals are already living lives with philosophical attitudes by trying to understand how things came to be. Proving that a philosophical attitude is a key component within their