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This guidebook introduces and examines Plato's 3 dialogues that take care of the loss of life of Socrates: Euthphryo, Apology and Crito. those dialogues are broadly considered as the nearest exposition of Socrates' ideas.

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First, when Socrates first tells Euthyphro about the charge against him, Euthyphro offers a very different explanation of the charge against Socrates: it is because Socrates claims to have a “divine sign” that comes to him (3b5–9), not because he is some other sort of religious or theological innovator. 21 22 THE EUTHYPHRO As we noted earlier, Euthyphro’s surmise turns out to be exactly correct according to all of the other ancient accounts of the trial – the specification of the charge of impiety that has to do with “introducing new divinities” is directed at Socrates’ “divine sign” (see Plato, Ap.

9d1–9e9) Perhaps the most important argument in the Euthyphro, at least from the point of view of the history of philosophy, is the one that comes next in the dialogue. Having been shown that disagreements among the gods creates a difficulty for his attempt to explain what piety is, Euthyphro seems relieved and encouraged when Socrates suggests (at 9d1–5) that perhaps the way to correct the problems Euthyphro’s first attempts have landed him in is simply to specify that impiety is whatever all the gods hate, and piety is what all the gods love – and if some of them love and others hate something, it will be “neither or both” (9d4–5).

We propose to review B’s paychecks to establish what the truth of the matter is – but A rejects our solution, saying, “What difference does that make? ” Or, perhaps in the extreme case, A is confused about the nature of money and even denies that it provides an objective way of deciding who has received what amount. In that case, A is simply confused about what it means to talk about more money and less money – A is confused about judging relative amounts of money; A is ignorant about money. Suppose we apply this to Euthyphro’s gods, however.

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