In Plato’s five dialogues we often hear about this interesting figure of a man named Socrates. Who is he? Socrates in the first dialogue, Euthyphro is being charged with the crime of essentially questioning everyone and everything and thinking that people who say they are wise are not actually so. As well as being a maker of Gods while not believing in the old Gods. Socrates says that Meletus (the prosecutor) thinks “he is corrupting the youth” and that he wants to get rid of the old people (Socrates, 2d). Keep in mind Socrates is age seventy at this time.
Socrates is someone I consider to be a great thinker because he has a knack for bringing out the truth in people. Therefore, if you say you know something but you really do not or only …show more content…
If you were to say that all humans get sad at a funeral and back that up by saying that this is common knowledge I think Socrates would say something like do you really believe in all that is common knowledge to be true. He would then sort of lead the person that said this into a corner and repeatedly throw questions at them or open their minds up to new ideas to ultimately have them realize that they, in fact, do not know what they are talking about. It is sort of like a manipulation tactic but Socrates does it so cleverly that you may not even realize it as such. It could also just be that in Philosophy this is exactly what Philosophers do is question any and everything. But let us see how it plays out in the text. Socrates asks Euthyphro “...what is the pious and what the impious do you say” (Socrates, 5d). Following that Euthyphro gives his response by saying pious is “...to prosecute the wrongdoer...and not prosecuting will be impious” (Euthyphro, 5e). What Socrates is trying to get at here is that if he truly knew what piety and impiety are that he would give a solid definition of the two, but Euthyphro instead gives examples of such. Proving that Euthyphro does not actually know what piety and impiety are but that the best he can do is give an example of what he thinks it …show more content…
In this dialogue, the setting takes place in a courtroom in front of an Athenian jury. Socrates here is pleading for the jury to just listen to what he has to say. He wants to simply tell them the truth and nothing else. Indeed, he accomplishes this by speaking to the jury in a conversational matter and just being deliberate about everything. Why he does this you may ask and not just do things the traditional way by having a prepared speech basically owning up to his mistakes or giving some sort of an apology. Is that one he is not going to lie and say what he did was bad in any way. Two he thinks that if he goes off the cuff with his speech with a man of his age people are much more going to accept what he says as truth than if it was a twenty-year-old speaking in this manner. At any rate, not of this is going to matter anyway because the jury is just going to find him guilty of charges brought against him. Either way, it is a lose-lose situation for Socrates. He even says it himself “...that you [were warned] not to be deceived by an accomplished speaker at all…” (Socrates, 17b). Additionally, he does not care about what will happen to him if they find him guilty. In fact, he says that “No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man…” (Socrates, 29b). So clearly his perception of death differs from
Socrates is someone I consider to be a great thinker because he has a knack for bringing out the truth in people. Therefore, if you say you know something but you really do not or only …show more content…
If you were to say that all humans get sad at a funeral and back that up by saying that this is common knowledge I think Socrates would say something like do you really believe in all that is common knowledge to be true. He would then sort of lead the person that said this into a corner and repeatedly throw questions at them or open their minds up to new ideas to ultimately have them realize that they, in fact, do not know what they are talking about. It is sort of like a manipulation tactic but Socrates does it so cleverly that you may not even realize it as such. It could also just be that in Philosophy this is exactly what Philosophers do is question any and everything. But let us see how it plays out in the text. Socrates asks Euthyphro “...what is the pious and what the impious do you say” (Socrates, 5d). Following that Euthyphro gives his response by saying pious is “...to prosecute the wrongdoer...and not prosecuting will be impious” (Euthyphro, 5e). What Socrates is trying to get at here is that if he truly knew what piety and impiety are that he would give a solid definition of the two, but Euthyphro instead gives examples of such. Proving that Euthyphro does not actually know what piety and impiety are but that the best he can do is give an example of what he thinks it …show more content…
In this dialogue, the setting takes place in a courtroom in front of an Athenian jury. Socrates here is pleading for the jury to just listen to what he has to say. He wants to simply tell them the truth and nothing else. Indeed, he accomplishes this by speaking to the jury in a conversational matter and just being deliberate about everything. Why he does this you may ask and not just do things the traditional way by having a prepared speech basically owning up to his mistakes or giving some sort of an apology. Is that one he is not going to lie and say what he did was bad in any way. Two he thinks that if he goes off the cuff with his speech with a man of his age people are much more going to accept what he says as truth than if it was a twenty-year-old speaking in this manner. At any rate, not of this is going to matter anyway because the jury is just going to find him guilty of charges brought against him. Either way, it is a lose-lose situation for Socrates. He even says it himself “...that you [were warned] not to be deceived by an accomplished speaker at all…” (Socrates, 17b). Additionally, he does not care about what will happen to him if they find him guilty. In fact, he says that “No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man…” (Socrates, 29b). So clearly his perception of death differs from