Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, And Plato

Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine all had different ways on how to attain and live a good life. Plato thought it was through the practice of death and being a philosopher. Aristotle believed it was being a virtuous person and contemplation. Augustine concludes it was through God. Each philosopher has his own way that he truly believes will lead others to eternal happiness. Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Phaedo there is this attempt to answer the question “what is piety?”. These dialogues take place in ancient Greece. The whole society is based on shame and honor. If you do not do what you are supposed to do well, then you are shamed. On the contrary, if you do what you are supposed to do well then you are honored. Socrates is a member of this …show more content…
Finding the answer was very important to Socrates because he wanted to see if what he had done was pious. He wants to see if he was right. In order to do that he needed the definition. Euthyphro gives him three definitions. All which were wrong. Socrates was looking for the genus, like and animal, plus the specific difference, ability to reason. The definition of a man is an animal with the ability to reason. Socrates was eventually proven guilty. However, he saw nothing wrong with educating the young. He thought that very few people had the ability to educate. He believed that he would not corrupt the young because that would eventually hurt him as he grew old and the younger generation took over society. He believed he was living in accord with first …show more content…
However,not in this life. Eternal happiness is never attainable in this life because the soul is subject to the body. When the soul is free and outlives the body, then one can be happy. This is why Plato states that we must practice death in order to attain happiness. We must be able to separate the wants of the body away from the needs of the soul. That is how we practice death. Philosophy and being a philosopher frees us. According to Plato, that is how we attain happiness. Aristotle thought that way to eternal happiness was through being virtuous and contemplation. Aristotle says that man acts in accord with the good and though the highest form of thinking, contemplation, we can attain happiness. Aristotle believed you have to be virtuous, formed by habit, concerned with choice, relative to us, determined by reason and how the good man would determine it. Aristotle believed there were three kinds of life, three parts of the soul and six character