Euthyphro
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
46 min
9,042 words
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Socrates encounters Euthyphro, who is prosecuting his own father for murder and is certain he knows what piety requires. Asked to define it, Euthyphro stumbles through four attempts, each more confused than the last. Out of the wreckage comes the Euthyphro dilemma: is something holy because the gods love it, or do the gods love it because it is holy? A small dialogue that has shaped philosophy of religion for 2,400 years.
