Reading Plato’s Euthyphro raises the question of tradition and what’s new. Euthyphro and Socrates both have something new about them. Through these two characters Plato seems to purposely juxtapose as similar and different philosophy and what in today’s terms would be called a religious man. Euthyphro is a diviner. The Greek word would not be “religious” but pious, holy, or righteous. So I ask again, what is piety? What is philosophy? Are they the same?
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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