
PREMIUM-Episode 46: Plato on Ethics & Religion
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Socrates' Disagreement With Yuthafro
Socrates registers some fairly serious disagreement with Yuthafro on this point. He's pretty clearly taking the traditional stories about the gods and using them as a justification for what he and self is doing. So I think in the background here is Socrates' willingness to admit that he disbelieves these grotesque stories, not just that he wants to set them aside but that he finds them false and perniciously so.
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