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Plato portrays Socratic examination against a background of courts, civic charges and political demands. Read it in that setting without letting the city’s verdict stand in for philosophical judgment.
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Guided course · Module 5 · Lesson 20
An examined life in the city
Plato’s Socrates questions Euthyphro’s confident account of piety. How can exposing inconsistent beliefs matter when the definition, and the portrait of the historical Socrates, remain unsettled?