PHI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Euthyphro Dilemma, Irony, Critical Philosophy
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There was a temple to athena on the acropolis. At the foot of the acropolis, there was an agora, or marketplace: there were also offices for politicians in the agora. Plato established a school here, called the academy. Aristotle later established another school, called the lyceum. He was the son of an aristocratic family in athens. Was part of a group of students of socrates by his late teens: not official students, because socrates was not an official or paid teacher. Founded the academy later in life: taught mathematics, ethics, etc. It was a dialogue between socrates and euthyphro. Socrates was a character in this: his depiction was done by plato, and was not necessarily true to form. Socratic irony was at play during this: socratic irony: a pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can then be challenged.
