Euthyphro, Apology, And Crito Analysis

Plato is one of the most well-known Philosophers of all time. A lot of one’s modern-day perception of things can be traced back to him. Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito are short works that help readers experience the depth of Socrates’ mind. In Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, Plato uses Socrates and the Athenians to explore the relationship between the city and the individual. In Euthyphro Socrates is presented before his trial on charges of impiety and “corrupting” the city’s youth. Socrates had a belief that the gods but be food or otherwise not be gods, which runs contrary to Greek mythology. “Strange things, to hear him tell it, for he says that I am a maker of gods, and on the ground that I create new gods while not believing in

According to Aristotle, Vice is the absence of virtue that does not lead to happiness. Virtue are the honorable qualities/character traits that we respect within ourselves and within others. Vice is the bad or undesirable qualities/character traits. Understanding virtue is necessary to pursue politics in the right manner. An individual needs to understand all ethical virtues. A belief that Aristotle has is that people who listen “effectively to lectures concerning noble and just things and, in general, to subjects dealt with by politics should be brought up well in ethical habits” (Ethics, 1095b4-6). Aristotle divides virtues into two types: moral and intellectual. Being that he was so impactful, many of Aristotle’s Virtues can found in other works of literature, specifically in Plato’s Apology. One of the virtues being wisdom. Aristotle believed practical wisdom as the highest intellectual wisdom. Socrates is the wises man. That is because instead of assuming his possesses wisdom, he accepts that wisdom is often unattainable and encourages pursing new and truer knowledge. At the beginning of the Apology Socrates before a court in Athens facing charges of impiety against Athens’ gods and “corrupting the Athenian youth”. Socrates claims charges were brought against him because he possessed wisdom; however, he believes that he does not possess such great wisdom the oracle claims he has, and that it is all lies brought against him. “What kind of wisdom? Human wisdom, perhaps. It may be that I really possess this, while those whom I mentioned just now are wise with a wisdom more than human; else I cannot explain it, for I certainly do not possess it, and whoever says I do is lying and speaks to slander me” (Socrates- The Apology: 20d/e). Deep down though, Socrates knows he does have great wisdom otherwise he