Euthyphro

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Creators: Plato (428? BCE-348? BCE) and Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) [Translator] "Euthyphro" by Plato is a philosophical dialogue written around 399 BC. Set outside an Athenian court, it follows Socrates as he awaits trial for impiety. He encounters Euthyphro, a confident prophet prosecuting his own father for murder. Socrates asks Euthyphro to define piety, sparking a rigorous examination that produces increasingly refined definitions—yet none prove satisfactory. Their discussion culminates in a famous dilemma about the gods' relationship to goodness, launching a debate that continues millennia later. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 76.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 6270

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