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Plato's Euthyphro

By: Plato
Narrated by: Ray Childs
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In Euthyphro, Socrates is on his way to the court, where he must defend himself against serious charges brought by religious and political authorities. On the way he meets Euthyphro, an expert on religious matters who has come to prosecute his own father. Socrates questions Euthyphro's claim that religion serves as the basis for ethics. Euthyphro is not able to provide satisfactory answers to Socrates' questions, but their dialogue leaves us with the challenge of making a reasonable connection between ethics and religion.

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Completely worth listening to, hearing a dialogue from two people is the way it should be done and Ray Childs rocks at it! Fantastic opportunity to hear many dialogues with the same voice of Socrates

Ray Childs is the bomb

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The reader really made me feel the frantic circular argument by Socrates rapid speech. I felt a little frantic and befuddled after listening to Socrates.

Very good performance of the reader

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A fast and riveting performance. One that can be put on replay whenever you're in the mood.

Engaging

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Euthyphro is one of the most basic and important philosophical pieces in a student's education. The platonic dialogue is one of my personal favorites, and this audiobook brought it to life. The wording was easy to understand yet formal so the prestige of the text is kept. The narrators play the parts wonderfully and give the untimely Socrates and Euthyphro character.
If you study philosophy or interested in it I highly recommend this audiobook and any other that comes from Agora publication

The classic dialogue comes to life

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I feel as if pious is a more appropriate word. Holy is a relatively new word

holy

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Timeless, what is deceptively simple is a profoundly complex affair. What is piety, our duties to the Gods and by extension our parents? To get to there, the larger question that will haunt us through all the other dialogues: what can we know in this life but that which is good? The justly good and best life, Eudaemonism. Ultimately we are our own and necessary arbiters. To live fulfilled, we seek justice, but what is that really...

The acting is smooth and provocative, sacrificing sarcasm in the written for inquisitiveness in conversation. This is a good place to start and could not have been an accidental choice to begin the Dialogues.

Well balanced and engaging. A good start.

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I hate that they substitute holy and unholy god pious and impious. That’s terrible because it’s known that Socrates asks about piety, not holiness. I rated low on story cus I don’t like holy over pious in this book.

Gods love you for being pious or pious so the gods love you?

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