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Euthyphro
Title: Euthyphro
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 975 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Euthyphro
Thoughts on Euthyphro
This drama effectively illustrates the difference between thinking you know something and truly knowing it. Euthyphro believes himself to be the authority in the practice and interpretation of his religion. Euthyphro has a great deal of respect for Socrates and is shocked to find that he has been charged with corrupting the minds of Athen’s youth. When Socrates asks what brings Euthyphro to court, Socrates is equally shocked to find that …showed first 75 words of 975 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 975 total…been answered. Euthyphro is thoroughly frustrated and tells Socrates that he is in a hurry and must go. Socrates voices that he is disappointed that he will not be able to use his definition of holiness and unholiness in his defense at his upcoming trial. This of course was never his real intention. He accomplished his intention by proving to Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed expert, that he really does not know much of anything at all.
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