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The physicist Lee Smolin thinks that physics, its laws, and constants evolve: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/troublemaker-lee-smolin...

As you probably know the Council at Nicaea was convened because of a rift between Christian theologians regarding the divinity of Jesus. Under Constan...

He was there to prosecute his father. If he prevailed the likely outcome would be the death penalty. There is no indication that he wanted his father ...

Another issue he mentions is "the recent growth of historical self-awareness within analytic philosophy".

If you think so then you have completely misunderstood what is at issue as I see it. But that is understandable if you start from the assumption that ...

It is a matter of his intention not of what the outcome might be. He thought he would prevail against his father.

Reading Plato requires doing more than just seeing the words on the page. Euthyphro was going to prosecute his father. If he was found guilty he would...

You answered your own question: Posterity? Us!

Editing error. I fixed it. And that is precisely the problem. 5e and the myth cycle of Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus in Hesiod's Theogony. https://wiki2.or...

I don't know where you got that idea from. Perhaps not for you. The examined life is fundamental for Socrates. The just, noble, and good are fundament...

Let me put it in the form of a syllogism: One who is not advanced in wisdom do the correct thing in this case Euthyphro is not advanced in wisdom. He ...

So, it reaches an impasse. It seems you now agree with @"Banno" and I that at least one dialogue ends in aporia.

Are you saying that there is no clear correct answer as to what Euthyphro should do?

There is in the Analects of Kongzi (Confucius) a similar problem: The Duke of She said to Kongzi, "Among my people there is one we call 'Upright Gong'...

In that case would someone advanced in wisdom prosecute his father for something that may not even warrant serious punishment? It would depend on the ...

Nothing wrong with the question. The problem is with who is asking. Your evasiveness and deceptive practices are not something I am willing to deal wi...

Thanks but I disagree forestalls philosophical discussion. I have not problem with resistance. It is standard practice. If I disagree I say why. I bac...

This is a good example of why I no longer respond to you. You misrepresent what I said. You have done the same with others here as well. Anyone who is...

If by precise definition you mean that by which we can recognize that was is said about it is true or false and what is done is either right or wrong,...

As I am attempting to show in the thread on Socratic philosophy https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11210/socratic-philosophy/p1 any attempt to ...

That would require a very long and detailed explanation. One interpretation that I agree with is that it the Plato's philosophical apology for Socrate...

Socrates calls himself a midwife and a physician of the soul. He acknowledges that both have knowledge. Like the sophists he has knowledge of how to a...

But Euthyphro is not defending social norms. One of the ironies of the dialogue is that Euthyphro's acting on what he is convinced he knows regarding ...

I mean communist in the original sense of the term, but neither term as they are used today includes the human breeding practices outlined in the Repu...

I completely agree, but I don't think the Republic is intended to be a model for an actual city. And with this as well. He bans the poets not poetry. ...

Perhaps those who cannot see that his actions are wrong cannot because they are too much like Euthyphro. As I said in my first post:

Yes. There is a tension that exists between the city and the family. The city demands that sons go to war. was brought sharply into focus during the V...

Euthyphro claims to have divine wisdom, that is, wisdom regarding divine things.

Very nice. Unfortunately some here take disagreement as a personal attack or resort to personal attacks where there is disagreement.

I think that this is the proper way to do it if your interest is in reading and understanding Plato rather than Platonism or the history of philosophy...

This is consonant with what Socrates describes as his practice in the Apology - making people see that they do not know what they profess to know. Whe...

With regard to this, banishing the poets from the Republic means banishing the myths of the gods.

2. In the Republic Socrates does not present the Forms merely as a premise, but rather as the things that are, the unchanging beings. They are said to...

Good question. Aside from the political motivations, I do think they had a point. The tension between philosophy and the city is a major theme of Leo ...

One thing that should be kept in mind is that the Republic is a "city in speech" intended to make it easier to show that justice is, for the city is t...

We are in agreement. Turning his away from the vicious ways of his father would have been seen by Anytus as corrupting him. If he did not become a man...

Socrates' irony is an important aspect of the question of how to read Plato. There are, of course, different opinions about how Plato is to be read. C...

I will sit on my back deck and toast you with a beer.

The connection was through Critias, who had been a student of Socrates. It is generally thought that Anytus was behind Meletus. He was a leader of the...

I don't know where you live but in the US look at the numbers in two states, Massachusetts and Florida, for example.

Sounds like an accurate description to me.

See Christoffer's post above.

Please have short, and often selective memories; From the BBC, 5/1/20: This is typical Trump bullshit - "I know but a can't tell you". He does not go ...

3017 thinks he can we by decree "let it be established". He really has done a very poor job of it. But perhaps some here think that he has won or is w...

3017 is having a very hard time of it. He is trying to avoid his responsibility to show what he had first claimed he would show, that atheism is illog...

180 has given his argument valid logical form. Of course the argument is empty. As they are both aware, valid does not mean sound. But note that 180 i...

From Merriam Webster. Piety: This is not particularly helpful. 1a points to the problem of Euthyphro's actions. Is his obligation to the city, his par...

Aristophanes' plays were social satire, they made serious fun. He recognized that philosophy was a threat to the ancestral, the traditional. The relat...

When Socrates asks: "what is piety?" or "what is justice?" he is not simply asking for a dictionary definition. The question "what is X?" is the quest...

In some ways the philosopher and the sophist are the same. I think the key difference is with regard to intention. In his comedic play The Clouds, Ari...