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Analysis of Socrates View on Ethics as Elaborated by Plato

Analysis of Socrates View on Ethics as Elaborated by Plato

Introduction

Early Platonic dialogues on moral virtues, such as:

Charmides (a work about the virtue of temperance)

Euthyphro (a dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro, a soothsayer who claims to be the world's greatest expert on religion and piety)

Lon (a gentle satire of an entertainer who recites epic poems)

Lachis (a work about the virtue of courage)

Lysis (a work about the virtue of friendship) establish the pattern of an omniscient Socrates (who routinely claims to know nothing) tearing to pieces the ideas of his ...