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EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 1

EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 1 Part 1 Examples are not Definitions Plato sets the scene of Euthyphro outside the courthouse in Athens. Socrates is there to hear an indictment brought against him by a young man named Meletus. Upon his arrival, Socrates is surprised to run into a prophet[1] he knows named Euthyphro. Euthyphro tells Socrates that he is there...

2025-06-15 21:06:33

EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 2

EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 2 From Understanding Plato: The Smart Student's Guide to the Socratic Dialogues and the Republic Part 2 Quarreling Deities Socrates repeats his request: “What are the pious and the impious?” Euthyphro responds by telling Socrates that "what's loved by the gods is pious, and what's not loved by the gods is impious" (7a). ...

2025-06-15 21:06:32

EUTHYPHRO: AN EXAMPLE OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 3

EUTHYPHRO: AN EXAMPLE OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 3 From Understanding Plato: The Smart Student's Guide to the Socratic Dialogues and the RepublicEUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHODPart 3Concurrence of the Gods Euthyphro now makes a third attempt (D3) to provide a definition. “I’d say that the pious is what all the gods love, and its opposite, what all the gods hate, is the...

2025-06-15 21:06:31

EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 4

EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 4 From Understanding Plato: The Smart Student's Guide to the Socratic Dialogues and the Republic EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHODPart 4 Piety is not a Skill After a bit of floundering about, Euthyphro finally hits on another, final definition of piety (D4). It is “some sort of knowledge of sacrificing and praying”...

2025-06-15 21:06:31

LEVIATHAN: THOMAS HOBBES ON THE ORIGIN OF CIVIL SOCIETY

LEVIATHAN: THOMAS HOBBES ON THE ORIGIN OF CIVIL SOCIETY THOMAS HOBBES 1588 - 1679 LEVIATHAN: THOMAS HOBBES ON THE ORIGIN OF CIVIL SOCIETY from Understanding Thomas Hobbes: The Smart Student's Guide to Leviathan Whenever you see or hear the word 'origin' you must be careful not to confuse it with the word 'meaning'. A theory about the origin of civil society is not the same...

2025-06-15 21:06:30

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, STATE INTERVENTION, MARRIAGE, CUSTODY AND DIVORCE

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, STATE INTERVENTION, MARRIAGE, CUSTODY AND DIVORCE Hot off the press and hoping that the book will not be "stillborn." You can help. Buy an eBook or paperback copy now at Amazon.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2ZWRDSW By the end of the 20th century there had been a veritable deluge of philosophical essays and books about children’s rights, adultery, family violence, the...

2025-06-15 21:06:29

WHY LAW FIRMS SHOULD SUE THE GOVERNMENT WHEN AN EXECUTIVE ORDER VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION

WHY LAW FIRMS SHOULD SUE THE GOVERNMENT WHEN AN EXECUTIVE ORDER VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION Law firms should sue but not settle with the government when an Executive Order violates the ConstitutionAdam Unikowsky On March 25, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block. ” Among other things, the Executive Order “limit[s] official...

2025-06-15 21:06:28

MENO'S PARADOX AND THE THEORY OF RECOLLECTION

MENO'S PARADOX AND THE THEORY OF RECOLLECTION Plato Thinking About the AfterlifePlato's Meno: Paradox and Solution In the dialogue Meno, Plato writes that after repeated failures to provide Socrates with an adequate definition of virtue, the character Meno complains that Socrates may not be able to inquire about virtue at all. If we know what virtue is, then there is no need to inquire...

2025-06-15 21:06:27

ROUSSEAU'S PARADOX: WE ARE BORN FREE IN CHAINS

ROUSSEAU'S PARADOX: WE ARE BORN FREE IN CHAINS Jean-Jacques Rousseau Last week I invited a guest to write a blog on Rousseau's The Social Contract. I asked the guest to discuss Rousseau's famous paradox that we are both born free and born in chains. The question for my guest: "How is this possible?" The name of my guest is A.I. Perplexity. Here is Perplexity's answer: The opening...

2025-06-15 21:06:26

GILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEIT

GILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEIT Edmund HusserlMartin HeideggerGilbert Ryle GILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEITIn a 1929 article printed in the journal Mind, Gilbert Ryle wrote a review of Martin Heidegger’s book Sein und Zeit (Being and Time). Although Ryle writes that Heidegger’s book is “a very difficult and important work, which marks a big...

2025-06-15 21:06:26

Checks and balances are only as good as their enforcers

Checks and balances are only as good as their enforcers When the head of state or government goes rogue, what happens next? Consider the recent experiences of three countries where the top leader pursued an agenda far more radical than they had campaigned on, in a way that caused widespread panic. In South Korea, Yoon-Suk Yeol attempted to impose martial law, marking an attempted return to...

2025-06-15 21:01:28

Why we sometimes need to deadname

Why we sometimes need to deadname A little while ago I was at a party en femme and met an older man who didn’t know many transgender people but was interested in talking about it. He mentioned someone else he knew who’d transitioned, and asked about how to refer to that person when discussing things they’d done together before the transition. He said that in that context it felt more...

2025-06-15 21:01:26

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