Plato, Euthyphro | Piety as a Part of Justice | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This video focuses on Plato's work, The Euthyphro, and discusses the second main attempt to provide a definition of "piety" in the dialogue -- one which construes that virtue or state as a portion of the broader virtue or state of justice.
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[@GregoryBSadler]

Turns out I was mistaken -- this is the last of the Core Concept videos on this particular dialogue. Next week, some Ion Core Concept vids coming out

[@MrMarktrumble]

thank you very much.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome

[@Mahoosi]

These Core Concepts videos are gold in abundance! Thank you, and Yay Philosophy!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome. I've got, believe it or not, 235 in the playlist now

[@Mahoosi]

That's wonderful! I've been binge watching them for the last two days and was fearful that they were going to run out! I really appreciate the effort and hard work that you've obviously put into this, the world needs good philosophy!

[@GregoryBSadler]

It gets better. I have created another 45 new core concept videos on Aristotle for the course I'm presently teaching. I'll be releasing them over the course of the summer

[@Mahoosi]

Wow, that's awesome and exciting, and it means I need to quite my job :)

[@SunshineInWoods]

Thank you for the interesting lecture. Several interesting Fantasy works (like American Gods) suggest that it's the worship itself that gives life and power to the Gods. I always found this idea quite enticing, but I guess that would have been considered blasphemous by the Ancient Greeks.

[@GregoryBSadler]

I think they would have considered it unlikely, rather than blasphemous. Incidentally, you'll see that in some older sci-fi/fantasy, and in one very early role playing game

[@minnowpd]

Love God, God loves you, do service, count your blessings. zeus, Hera,s lord whose thunder drums the sky, is indifferent to our lot, he fears the "fates".

[@JoshV74656]

Virtue defined as being in proper relationship with the gods, hmm, never thought of virtue in that way. Although it makes sense, I would consider treating others the "right" way as virtuous, the ancient Greeks and Euthyphros translated that relationship to the Gods. But how does one enrich or improve the life of a God, or in the words of Captain Kirk "what does God need with a starship"?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Notice that they're not defining virtue as such, but that virtue

[@utubeSunny]

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[@janniberssenbrugge780]

Hey, could you possibly produce some core concept videos on Plotinus?

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[@danielstanton4255]

Doesn't socrates contradict himself when he asserts that the gods are anthropomorphic enough to disagree on matters of morality, as humans do, but simultaneously not anthropomorphic enough to appreciate things like the aromas of sacrifices? If we take that they are sufficiently "lofty" to not care about such things, wouldn't that take away from the argument that they would disagree on matters of morality?

[@GregoryBSadler]

No