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morality VS justice! |
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By: MaryCecilia Date: November 11, 2012, 2:58 pm |
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Okay, so I talked to my father about the dialogue that |
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Euthniphro was prosecuting his father, and told him the |
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circumstances. I told him that Euthniphro was in the right for |
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prosecuting his father for murdering his slave. He told me that |
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it doesn't matter who the person that someone killed, the idea |
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that you protect them from their punishments would make you an |
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accessory to the crime. Therefore, if someone does something |
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wrong, and you think it's wrong, regardless of the person, if |
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you know it, you should probably turn them in. Yes, it may not |
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be very fun at Christmas or New years, and you probably will get |
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written out of the family will, but by bringing them to justice, |
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you are doing them a favor. Unless they refuse to believe you, |
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it's better to do this. OR he said that Euthniphro could also |
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recuse himself and let someone else prosecute his father so |
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Euthniphro doesn't have a moral conflict or interests. That's |
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perfectly legal too. Not all things are black and white, there |
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are no defining edges, there are always countless shades of grey |
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in-between White and Black. I thought that that needed to be |
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said. |
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Re: morality VS justice! |
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By: MaryCecilia Date: November 11, 2012, 3:05 pm |
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No I do not know how to spell. Especially Greek/Roman names. |
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Re: morality VS justice! |
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By: Doug Date: April 23, 2013, 2:34 pm |
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Mary, if I had the dialogue in front of me, I'd cite the exact |
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text, but Socrates' issue with Euthyphro was not simply that he |
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was prosecuting his father, but that he was absolutely certain |
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that what he was doing was right. The circumstances must be |
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remembered here: his father's slave had killed another person, |
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so his father bound him then forgot about him. Not to say this |
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was a good thing to do, but again, Socrates' point is that one |
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must be absolutely certain when leveling a charge against |
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someone, and particularly so when that person is one's father. |
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