Week 14 Nietzsche vs Socrates

Necessary and sufficient conditions

Bachelor case:
You have to be unmarried and a man to become a bachelor.

• #Necessary and sufficient conditions gives us a clear and ideal modeling of problem
• You have learned something in any sense, something negative if not something positive.
• Self knowledge that you have.

Plato's Euthyphro

Euthyphro's answers:

1. The pious = what is dear to the gods.
2. The pious = what is dear to all gods.
3. The pious = the part of the just that is concerned with the care of the gods.

Socrates' objections

1. Against (1): The same thing =s are dear are not-dear to the gods.
2. Against (2): The pious and the god-loved cannot be equivalent.
3. Against (3): The reduces to either (1) or (2), so not working either.

Suggest exercise:

Analyze 'Against (2)'

The Socratic method

1. Honest interest in interlocutor's concerns.
2. Takes interlocutor seriously as a person
3. Exclusive focus on interlocutor's statements, beliefs
4. Avoids expressing his own opinions
5. Constantly asks interlocutor whether interlocutor can follow
6. Eager to clarify his meaning, if necessary
7. Constantly asks for interlocutor's meaning
8. Aim to uncover incoherent presumptions