PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Meletus, Fallacy, Begging The Question
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E and s accidentally meet at the kind-archon"s court. S is there to be notified of his indictment by meletus. It is ridiculous, socrates, for you to think that it makes any difference whether the victim is a stranger or a relative. One should only watch whether the killer acted justly or not; if he acted justly, let him go, but if not, one should prosecute, if, that is to say, the killer shared your hearth and table. The pollution is the same if you knowingly . For, they say, it is impious for a son to prosecute his father . Plato is by no means the only source of socrates" teachings. What"s loved by all the gods is the pious. It"s already pious so the gods love it. Socrates is saying that to love something because the gods love it is not correct.
