PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paul Shorey
23 Jan 2014
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I don"t think you understand what must happen whenever anyone comes into close contact with. Socrates and gets into a conversation with him. Even if conversation starts off on some other topic, it never ends until socrates argues him around to having to account not only for the way he lives his life now but for the life he has led before. Once this starts, socrates will not let him off the hook until he has put everything about him well and truly to the test. * pouncing on him, won"t leave him alone. The wealth of ideas compressed into these few pages illustrates the impossibility of deducing the whole significance of a platonic dialogue from a single supposed purpose. If euthyphro would have stayed a little bit longer, would he have come up with an adequate definition? ) Socratic irony saying the opposite of what he really means. When socrates says he will be euthyphro"s student.
