Plato's Euthyphro

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ray Childs

In Euthyphro, Socrates is on his way to the court, where he must defend himself against serious charges brought by religious and political authorities. On the way he meets Euthyphro, an expert on religious matters who has come to prosecute his own father. Socrates questions Euthyphro's claim that religion serves as the basis for ethics. Euthyphro is not able to provide satisfactory answers to Socrates' questions, but their dialogue leaves us with the challenge of making a reasonable connection between ethics and religion.

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The classic dialogue comes to life

Euthyphro is one of the most basic and important philosophical pieces in a student's education. The platonic dialogue is one of my personal favorites, and this audiobook brought it to life. The wording was easy to understand yet formal so the prestige of the text is kept. The narrators play the parts wonderfully and give the untimely Socrates and Euthyphro character.
If you study philosophy or interested in it I highly recommend this audiobook and any other that comes from Agora publication

holy

I feel as if pious is a more appropriate word. Holy is a relatively new word

Ray Childs is the bomb

Completely worth listening to, hearing a dialogue from two people is the way it should be done and Ray Childs rocks at it! Fantastic opportunity to hear many dialogues with the same voice of Socrates

Engaging

A fast and riveting performance. One that can be put on replay whenever you're in the mood.

Very good performance of the reader

The reader really made me feel the frantic circular argument by Socrates rapid speech. I felt a little frantic and befuddled after listening to Socrates.