Socrates Piety And Impiety

In today’s modern society, individual’s beliefs and principles are spread through a variety of ways. We derive our understanding of society from friends, parents, bloggers, or even news anchors who spread common ideologies without questioning their validity. However, in every society, there are those who don’t take everything they hear to be true. These people, known as thinkers, question familiar beliefs and provoke thinking in a new light. Born of humble beginnings, Socrates was one of those thinkers and thought differently than most. He spent most of his life fearlessly questioning the told truth and provoking new wisdom in others. A man studied by so many, Socrates based many of his ideologies around his religion. Like Socrates, Stephen

Socrates uses a question and answer method to discuss the logic behind an informed decision. Near the courthouse, a puzzled Socrates learns his friend Euthyphro is prosecuting his own father for committing murder. Deciding to prosecute, against the advice of his family, Euthyphro claims his actions are right in that his family has the wrong “ideas of the divine attitude of piety and impiety” (Plato, 5). Socrates asks Euthyphro what he believes “is pious, and what is the impious, do you say?” (6). Euthyphro admits “what is dear to the gods is pious, what is not is impious” (7). Socrates doesn’t accept this statement to be true and continues digging into Euthyphro’s claim. Because the gods “are at odds and at war with each other” (9), a single action could be both pious and impious by Euthyphro’s definition. Euthyphro’s argument, now exceedingly complicated, makes Euthyphro contradicts himself. In the above exchange, Socrates proves the problem with accepting claimed

Growing up, Catholics are taught to act based on readings in the bible and told not to sin. Because of his adherence to Catholicism, Colbert holds people to high ethical standards based on Catholic morals, such as always telling the truth. Like Socrates, Colbert dissects simple claims to study each segment before accepting any declaration to be true. Colbert often investigates affirmations made by politicians such as Donald Trump, cutting a clip of a speech into segments and providing his own counter argument for each segment. Colbert examined one particular Trump rally by discussing the Birther Controversy. First Stephen builds up the clip, saying Trump made “a major announcement” (https://youtu.be/byP7XvzFqRc?t=1m29s). After playing the clip, Colbert pauses just after Trump says “President Barak Obama was born in the United States, period” (1m34s), giving Colbert time to mock Trump for calling his announcement “major”. Colbert continues the clip and eventually Trump exclaims “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the Birther Controversy” (2m15s). Colbert stops the clip again mid speech to show evidence of news stations debunking this Trump claim long before Trump protested. Colbert continues the clip and we hear Trump say that he “finished it (the Birther Controversy)” (3m8s). Colbert proves the claim to be false with substantial video evidence entailing conversations where Trump