Plato's Euthyphro

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Plato's Euthyphro

One of the most interesting and influential thinkers of all time was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning helped form the basis for

philosophy. Socrates applied logical tricks in the search for the truth. Consequently, his willingness to call everything into question and his

determination to accept nothing less than an accurate account of the nature of things made him one of the first people to apply critical

philosophy. Although he was well known for his philosophical ways of thinking, Socrates never wrote anything down, so we are dependent

on his students, like Plato, for any detailed knowledge of his methods or ways of thinking. One of the early dialogues in which Plato had

written was Euthyphro.

The Euthyphro dialogue begins with Socrates becoming involved in a touchy conversation with an over confident young man, Euthyphro.

Socrates finds Euthyphro perfectly certain of his own ethical morality even in the situation of prosecuting his own father in court. Socrates

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