Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

6 PLATO There are few books in Western civilization that have had the impact of Plato’s Republic—aside from the Bible, perhaps n ...

INTRODUCTION 7 Brumbaugh,Plato for a Modern Age(New York: Macmillan, 1964); I.M. Crombie,An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines,two ...

8 PLATO 2 b c d 3 b PlatoEuthyphro, F.J. Church ( /Library of the Liberal Arts, 19 ). EUTHYPHRO Characters Socrates Euthyphro Sc ...

EUTHYPHRO 9 c The Acropolis and the Parthenon a.The Parthenon, Athens, built 477–438 B.C. The Parthenon, dedicated to Athena, pa ...

10 PLATO 4 b c d e without payment. Indeed, if I could I would gladly pay people myself to listen to me. If then, as I said just ...

EUTHYPHRO 11 5 b c d e 6 b c EUTHYPHRO: If I did not understand all these matters accurately, Socrates, I should not be worth mu ...

12 PLATO e 7 b c Acropolis at the great Panathenaic festival? Are we to say that these things are true, Euthyphro? EUTHYPHRO: Ye ...

EUTHYPHRO 13 d e 8 b c SOCRATES: And should we not settle a question about the relative weight of two things by weighing them? E ...

14 PLATO e 9 b c d EUTHYPHRO: No, indeed, that they do not. SOCRATES: Then it is not the case that there is nothing which they w ...

EUTHYPHRO 15 e 10 b c d EUTHYPHRO: Well, I should say that piety is what all the gods love, and that impi- ety is what they all ...

16 PLATO 11 b c d e 12 EUTHYPHRO: Of course. SOCRATES: Then piety is not what is pleasing to the gods, and what is pleasing to t ...

EUTHYPHRO 17 b c d e 13 SOCRATES: Yet you have the advantage over me in your youth no less than your wisdom. But, as I say, the ...

18 PLATO b c d e SOCRATES: For I suppose that the skill that is concerned with horses is the art of taking care of horses. EUTHY ...

EUTHYPHRO 19 14 b c d e 15 SOCRATES: So are those, my friend, which a general produces. Yet it is easy to see that the crowning ...

20 PLATO b c d e 16 SOCRATES: But what arethese gifts, Euthyphro, that we give the gods? EUTHYPHRO: What do you think but honor ...

APOLOGY 21 17 b c d 18 b c APOLOGY Characters Socrates Meletus Scene—The Court of Justice SOCRATES: I do not know what impressio ...

22 PLATO 19 b c d e 20 the accusers whom I fear; for their hearers think that persons who pursue such inquiries never believe in ...

APOLOGY 23 b c d of Hipponicus, a man who has spent more money on sophists than everyone else put together. So I said to him (he ...

24 PLATO e 22 b by reason of a certain wisdom. But by what kind of wisdom? It is by Just that wisdom which is perhaps human wisd ...

APOLOGY 25 c d e 23 b c d e 24 tell you the truth, my friends, but I must say it. Almost any one of the bystanders could have ta ...