A Student Commentary on Plato's Euthyphro (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780472054329)

The Euthyphro is crucially important for understanding Plato's presentation of the last days of Socrates, dramatized in four brief dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. In addition to narrating this evocative series of events in the life of Plato's philosophical hero, the texts also can be read as reflecting how a wise man faces death. This particular dialogue contains Socrates' vivid examination of the intentions of Euthyphro to prosecute his own father for murder and culminates in an attempt to understand holiness--a topic central both to Euthyphro's justification of his actions and to the charge of impiety that Socrates faces before the Athenian court.

This accessible student commentary by Charles Platter presents an introduction to the Euthyphro, the full Greek text, and a commentary designed for undergraduates and selected graduate students. As part of the series Michigan Classical Commentaries, now edited by Josiah Osgood and Alexander Sens at Georgetown University, and K. Sara Myers at the University of Virginia, the volume is sized and priced for student use.


Author: Charles Platter
ISBN-10: 0472054325
ISBN-13: 9780472054329
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2019
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.20d