Euthyphro

One of the most profound philosophers is Plato (427-347 BCE). Society knows of his works such as The Republic and Allegory of the Cave, but no one is truly familiar with his life unless they have studied him. To understand his works you must first understand his life and all that he experienced. I am going to open your eyes and educate you on the man who influenced western civilization. Together we will explore how he met his teacher, the Theory of Forms, almost being sold into slavery, founding…

The current thesis endeavors to access the notion of “ Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” What is truth? What is so intricately responsible and substantial as to justify the real in depths of truth? Is truth ‘true’? What is ‘true’ then? “To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. Everything is permitted... is to understand that we are the architects of our actions and we must live…

Hypothesis My analysis of the following readings: The Trial and Death of Socrates, the Republic and The Prince will examine the relationship between morality and politics. I propose that the most moral people should be involved in politics. The overall goal of my paper is to examine the differences between Socrates, Plato and Machiavelli in their beliefs of where, or if at all, morality should be involved in politics. The results will show that both the leader and the people being led would be…

people are merely ignorant of their own ignorance. He determines that they are only truly capable of giving him examples of specific instances where actions seem to showcase the thing that he is seeking knowledge of—such the examples of piety that Euthyphro describes; he also discerns that they are incapable of giving him a definitive definition that is not easily shown to be a contradiction or fallacious in some other way. The act of having a definition for Socrates is crucial because he…

“Is something good because God likes it? Or does God like things because they are good?” This was the question asked by Socrates during his discussion on Piety with Euthyphro. This question is still a point of contention for philosophers to this day, and is known as “Euthyphro’s Dilemma.” There are two main forms of thought on this issue. The first, known as Divine Subjectivism, is the belief that something is good because God like it. The second, known as Divine Objectivism, is the belief that…

Examined Lives Today Arête, excellence, the best possible state of the soul. What kind of attributes does one consider when questioned about the excellence of something? One noticeably valuable and monumental characteristic of arête is religion and what it means to be religious. For this interview I chose to examine my mother, Sandy, knowing she would have the capability to produce knowledgeable answers relating to the means of being religious and the potential connections they have to…

As said earlier, philosophy is not just a “love of wisdom.” First, it involves other virtues besides wisdom. This is shown through Plato’s exploration of the virtue of piety in the Socratic dialogue Euthyphro, and during Socrates’ defense in Apology, in which Socrates displays multiple virtues including courage, resilience and honesty in the face of immense adversity and even death. Since Plato and Socrates are philosophers, and they found it worthwhile…

When one first begins to consider the nature of morality, many of the fundamentals of moral philosophy are brought to a space of intellectual questioning. One begins to ask oneself questions about whether morality can have objective truth, how can one know what is right and wrong and even why should I be moral? Additionally, many intuitively believe, and are taught through their religions, that God and religion play a large role in morality. The Divine Command Theory is a meta-ethical theory…

betterment of the youth and for there only one corrupter in Athens, in this case him. He says “It would be a very happy state of affairs if only one corrupted our youth, while the others improved them.” (Apology 25 B) He alludes back to 13 B of Euthyphro with the mention of the horse and horse breeders, where only the horse breeders are able to help the horses, meanwhile anyone else who is not a horse breeder and owns and uses horses, corrupts them. He says, “Tell me: does this also apply to…

to the body. Plato recognizes that all people have faults, but people need to realize what their mistake was and work towards improving themselves by gaining knowledge. The dialogues represent this through Socrates’ experience with Euthyphro, Meno, and Crito; Euthyphro was prosecuting his father because he thought it was pious, but he did not understand what true piety is which is why Socrates had to guide him by asking genuine questions about what piety is. In Meno, Plato discusses what type…