Euthyphro And Plato Case Study

Plato is the man popularized Socrates teaching by staging Socrates as the protagonist in philosophical dialogues called The Trail and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues. In the dialogue “Euthyphro” Socrates encountered Euthyphro in the courtroom surprisingly. Socrates was being prosecuted by Meletus for impiety because the young man believed Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens. Euthyphro was a religious expert who has gained a reputation. He was prosecuting his father for a series of charges for murder, which was considered a criminal moral case by the Greeks. Euthyphro was there to convict his father of murder because a man killed a servant in a drunken rage, and his father bound and threw the murderer in a ditch. Socrates stated that

Socrates suggested Euthyphro should teach him religious issues, so he could help Meletus, since Socrates lacked holiness in this case by worshiping gods that cannot assist the state.

There were stages of augmenting to explore the concepts and aim of piety and pious between Euthyphro and Socrates. “Piety is doing as I am doing; that is to say, prosecuting and one who is guilty of murder, sacrilege, or of any other similar crime, and whether he is your father or mother, or some other person, that makes no difference, and not prosecuting them is impiety.”(TDS, P.4-P.5) Euthyphro offered his first definition of what is piety. He believed the way that he prosecuted his father for manslaughter is the way to explain the meaning of devotion. He believed he should do something for people who are guilty of their crimes. However,

He concluded in the cyclical argument that the generations were in a straight line only; there were not circles of elements. The theory of recollection is an abstract idea. The absolute equality does not exist in the universe; he concluded something must have existed before birth. Socrates ended in the affinity argument of the form of life that the soul is the form of life or cause of life. The Theory of Forms is the most important aspect advancing Socrates’ argument. The Theory raises particular philosophical problems that encourage people to think in abstract ways of the understanding in propositional knowledge. The Theory of Forms is an abstract idea that leads to infinite directions; it leads to circularity that never ends. A Form is behind every concept or every object and is invisible. Plato believes that Forms are connected to one another because every human has an immortal soul to assess the combinations of types. We could recognize the reality of invisible sides through our rational thought, and we generalize similar objects in one category. The characteristic of a Form is unchangeable, eternal and