Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY IN GREECE, BEFORE AND IN THE TIME OF SOKRATES
- CHAPTER II GENERAL REMARKS ON THE EARLIER PHILOSOPHERS—GROWTH OF DIALECTIC—ZENO AND GORGIAS
- CHAPTER III LTFE OF PLATO
- CHAPTER IV PLATONIC CANON, AS RECOGNISED BY THRASYLLUS
- CHAPTER V PLATONIC CANON AS APPRECIATED AND MODIFIED BY MODERN CRITICS
- CHAPTER VI PLATONIC COMPOSITIONS GENERALLY
- CHAPTER VII APOLOGY OP SOKRATES
- CHAPTER VIII KRITON
- CHAPTER IX EUTHYPHRON
- CHAPTER X ALKIBIADES I. AND II.
- CHAPTER XI HIPPIAS MAJOR—HIPPIAS MINOR
- CHAPTER XII HIPPARCHUS—MINOS
- CHAPTER XIII THEAGES
- CHAPTER XIV ERASTÆ OR ANTERASTÆ—RIVALES
- CHAPTER XV ION
- CHAPTER XVI LACHES
- CHAPTER XVII CHARMIDES
- CHAPTER XVIII LYSIS
- CHAPTER XIX EUTHYDEMUS
CHAPTER IX - EUTHYPHRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY IN GREECE, BEFORE AND IN THE TIME OF SOKRATES
- CHAPTER II GENERAL REMARKS ON THE EARLIER PHILOSOPHERS—GROWTH OF DIALECTIC—ZENO AND GORGIAS
- CHAPTER III LTFE OF PLATO
- CHAPTER IV PLATONIC CANON, AS RECOGNISED BY THRASYLLUS
- CHAPTER V PLATONIC CANON AS APPRECIATED AND MODIFIED BY MODERN CRITICS
- CHAPTER VI PLATONIC COMPOSITIONS GENERALLY
- CHAPTER VII APOLOGY OP SOKRATES
- CHAPTER VIII KRITON
- CHAPTER IX EUTHYPHRON
- CHAPTER X ALKIBIADES I. AND II.
- CHAPTER XI HIPPIAS MAJOR—HIPPIAS MINOR
- CHAPTER XII HIPPARCHUS—MINOS
- CHAPTER XIII THEAGES
- CHAPTER XIV ERASTÆ OR ANTERASTÆ—RIVALES
- CHAPTER XV ION
- CHAPTER XVI LACHES
- CHAPTER XVII CHARMIDES
- CHAPTER XVIII LYSIS
- CHAPTER XIX EUTHYDEMUS
Summary
The dialogue called Euthyphron, over and above its contribution to the ethical enquiries of Plato, has a certain bearing on the character and exculpation of Sokrates. It will therefore come conveniently in immediate sequel to the Apology and the Kriton.
Situation supposed in the dialogue—interlocutors
The indictment by Melêtus against Sokrates is assumed to have been formally entered in the office of the King Archon. bokrates has come to plead to it. In the portico before that office, he meets Euthyphron: a man of ultra-pious pretensions, possessing special religious knowledge (either from revelation directly to himself, or from having been initiated in the various mysteries consecrated throughout Greece), delivering authoritative opinions on doubtful theological points, and prophesying future events.
What brings you here, Sokrates (asks Euthyphron), away from your usual haunts? Is it possible that any one can have preferred an indictment against you?
Indictment by Melêtus against Sokrates—Antipathy of the Athenians towards those who spread heretical opinions
Yes (replies Sokrates), a young man named Melêtus. He takes commendable interest in the traininer of vouth, and lias indicted me as a corruptor of vouth. He says that I corrupt them by teaching belief in new gods, and unbelief in the true and ancient gods. Euthyph.—I understand: it is because you talk about the Daemon or Genius often communicating with you, that Melêtus calls you an innovator in religion. He knows that such calumnies find ready admission with most minds. So also, people laugh at me, when I talk about religion, and when I predict future events in the assembly. It must be from jealousy; because all that I have predicted has come true.
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- Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates , pp. 310 - 330Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1865