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Plato’s account of Socrates’s defense connects examination and care for the soul with civic authority, religious commitment and the refusal of an unjust order.
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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?