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Plato’s Euthyphro

By: Plato
Narrated by: William Sigalis, Henry Akona
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In Euthyphro, Socrates is on his way to the court where he must defend himself against serious charges brought by religious and political authorities. On the way, he meets Euthyphro, an expert on religious matters, who has come to prosecute his own father. Socrates questions Euthyphro’s claim that religion serves as the basis for ethics.

Plato lived in Athens, Greece. He wrote approximately two-dozen dialogues that explore core topics that are essential to all human beings. Although the historical Socrates was a strong influence on Plato, the character by that name that appears in many of his dialogues is a product of Plato’s fertile imagination. All of Plato’s dialogues are written in a poetic form that his student Aristotle called "Socratic dialogue." In the twentieth century, the British philosopher and logician Alfred North Whitehead characterized the entire European philosophical tradition as "a series of footnotes to Plato."

Philosophy for Plato was not a set of doctrines but a goal - not the possession of wisdom but the love of wisdom. Agora Publications offers these performances based on the assumption that Plato wrote these works to be performed by actors in order to stimulate additional dialogue among those who listen to them.

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Excellent and entertaining.

Certainly a veiled rebuke of the Athenians who condemned Plato's teacher Socrates to death for the crime of impiety.

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Abridgement horrible

marked unabridged, a student unfamiliar with this dialog will either be muddled, misdirected or think Socrates illogical. The abridgement leaves out points central to the discussion. definitely abridged. it might have been possible to cut it down by ten minutes, but this abridgement cuts at clearly wrong places. since it is free, it may be a good idea to use the Euthyphro from Plato's Dialogs - also free, first and after working through and understanding the arguments proposed, come back to this one. if the omissions are not jarring to your logical senses, you may not have understood the dialog well enough yet for class.

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