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Euthyphro
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett
On his way to answer the charge of impiety, Socrates meets Euthyphro, who is prosecuting his own father, and asks him what piety is.
The Euthyphro is a short dialogue on the nature of piety. Euthyphro offers several definitions, and Socrates asks whether the pious is loved by the gods because it is pious, or pious because it is loved by the gods.
This edition is the English translation by Benjamin Jowett.
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PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Euthyphro.
EUTHYPHRO: Why have you left the Lyceum, Socrates? and what are you doing in the Porch of the King Archon? Surely you cannot be concerned in a suit before the King, like myself?
SOCRATES: Not in a suit, Euthyphro; impeachment is the word which the Athenians use.
EUTHYPHRO: What! I suppose that some one has been prosecuting you, for I cannot believe that you are the prosecutor of another.
EUTHYPHRO: Then some one else has been prosecuting you?
SOCRATES: A young man who is little known, Euthyphro; and I hardly know him: his name is Meletus, and he is of the deme of Pitthis. Perhaps you may remember his appearance; he has a beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown.
EUTHYPHRO: No, I do not remember him, Socrates. But what is the charge which he brings against you?
Contents
- 01Introduction.
- 02Euthyphro
About this edition
- Author
- Plato
- Translator
- Benjamin Jowett
- Era
- Ancient (to c. 500)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 31 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers