PHI 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Extensional And Intensional Definitions, Deductive Reasoning, Groucho Marx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Dean Lauer

Document Summary

Chapter 3 on socrates"s two favorite questions. Socrates"s two pertinent questions: what exactly do you mean by that, what evidence do you have for your claim. Plato"s dialogue euthyphro, socrates meets his friend euthyphro on steps of stoa basileios (king"s porch), located northwest corner of agora in downtown athens. Was a court where religious cases were heard. Socrates came to court building for a pretrial hearing on the capital charges against him from. Socrates shocked learning that euthyphro came to court to charge his own father with murder. He asks euthyphro why he is bringing charges against his own father. Euthyphro explains his father is responsible for the death of a servant and says the pious (morally right) thing to do . Socrates ask him if he knows what piety is, euthyphro proudly claims expert knowledge. However though euthyphro knows what it means, socrates thinks he might not know what it really is; sets stage for classic socrates confrontation.