Socrates

Socratic Method: reaching truth via questioning (macro)

The Dialectic: actual back and forth of questioning philosophy to reach synthesis (micro)

It is Euthy’s duty to put his father to justice

Piety = what the gods desire

what the gods focus on/thinks is justice

“No man was wiser than Socrates”

Socrates is wise because he is aware that he is ignorant like everyone else.

Socratic Paradox: What I do not know, I do not think I know.

Socratic Problem: We only know Socrates from second-hand accounts. (Plato, Xenophon)

The Dialectic

Euth = interlocker (the person being questioned/examined/challenged)

Socrates thinks the main fault of democracy was that it did not require special knowledge in its leaders.