The setting of Plato’s Euthyphro took place with a discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro which concerned the definition of Piety. This was an interest to Socrates for which he was being charged for impiety and facing a trail at the Athenian court to determine his innocence for the crimes he was accused for. Socrates wasn’t sure if the Athenian people actually knew what piety and impiety was. For this reason, Socrates asked Euthyphro “What is piety?” Euthyphro is arrogant and so his definitions were vague. Instead of giving an actual response to the question, Euthyphro gives an example. “Piety is doing what I am doing, bringing charges of murder against impiety.” Socrates tells him that all he has given is a mere example of what piety is,
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They were known to possess certain ideas and they were incredibly intellectual. They were first welcomed to Athens for that reason, to share their knowledge and wisdom and spread it amongst the people of Athens. They were welcomed so that they can persuade people of their correct views. Focus were limited around that time in Athens, not a lot of people had those thoughts and ideas. The Sophists believed that they had the one true morality and that they themselves had one set of moral rules that is. They believed it was based on nature and unsurpassed by any other culture. The Sophists eventually fell into disfavor with the Athenians because their act to persuade people turned out to be used for the bad. They used their rhetoric teachings by an irrational system of persuasion and they also charged people for it as well. One of the many Sophists was Protagoras who had a strong belief in skepticism about knowledge. He believed each individual person is the measure of what is true and false. There is no way to determine what is objectively true or false. Protagoras believed in moral relativism as well. Which he believed that each particular group or society is the measure and the final authority of right and wrong and these values are relative to those particular groups
They were known to possess certain ideas and they were incredibly intellectual. They were first welcomed to Athens for that reason, to share their knowledge and wisdom and spread it amongst the people of Athens. They were welcomed so that they can persuade people of their correct views. Focus were limited around that time in Athens, not a lot of people had those thoughts and ideas. The Sophists believed that they had the one true morality and that they themselves had one set of moral rules that is. They believed it was based on nature and unsurpassed by any other culture. The Sophists eventually fell into disfavor with the Athenians because their act to persuade people turned out to be used for the bad. They used their rhetoric teachings by an irrational system of persuasion and they also charged people for it as well. One of the many Sophists was Protagoras who had a strong belief in skepticism about knowledge. He believed each individual person is the measure of what is true and false. There is no way to determine what is objectively true or false. Protagoras believed in moral relativism as well. Which he believed that each particular group or society is the measure and the final authority of right and wrong and these values are relative to those particular groups