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Euthyphro

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At the porch of the King Archon, where he has come to answer Meletus' charge, Socrates meets Euthyphro, who is about to prosecute his own father for homicide, convinced he is acting piously. Socrates asks him to define piety and dismantles his answers one after another; hence the famous dilemma: is the pious pious because the gods love it, or do they love it because it is pious? It is a canonical example of the elenchus without a positive conclusion.

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Authorship note

A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him.

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  • The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo — Socrates

    The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo

    Penguin Classics, 2003

    Translation: Hugh Tredennick y Harold Tarrant

    ISBN 9780140449280

    Reeditada en 2010 con ISBN 9780140455496.

  • Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo — Socrates

    Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

    Hackett Publishing, 2002

    Translation: G. M. A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper

    ISBN 9780872206335

    2.ª edición; registro de Open Library de 2005.

  • Euthyphro

    Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    Dominio público.

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Español

  • Eutifrón o de la santidad

    Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Tomo 1 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.

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  • Diálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 37), 1981

    Translation: J. Calonge Ruiz, E. Lledó Íñigo y C. García Gual

    ISBN 9788424900816

    Introducción general de Emilio Lledó.

Other works by Socrates

Sources

  • Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).

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