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Plato's Dialogues - Euthyphro (Audiobook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--lZWSMeVzA

Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html

As mentioned earlier, I'm branching out and will be posting on topics of various interests. I'm thinking I will begin at a major wellspring of the Western philosophical tradition by hitting Platon's (and Xenophon's) dialogues around the prosecution and death of their teacher, Sokrates, and then move on to Aristoteles's Nichomachean Ethics, making weekly posts in digestible chunks. From there, I can go in any number of directions, but it makes sense to me to either post on other Hellenic or Hellenistic philosophy, politics, history, or arts, or to move on to Rome, or to jump over to China to post the Great Learning of Kong Fuzi, or Master Kong, commonly rendered as Confucius with commentary by his student and one of the Four Sages of Confucianism, Zengzi (Master Zeng). Other foundational options could include Genesis, which begins the Jewish and Christian religious canon, or the Bhagavad Gita (The Song by God) which is a foundational Hindu scripture, and whence comes J. Robert Oppenheimer's famous line "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". I will consider requests.

The dialogue of Euthyphrōn (Εὐθύφρων), commonly rendered as Euthyphro in English (almost uniquely so), is presumably set in 399 BC, wherein Plátōn (Πλάτων) has Sokrátes meet the Athenian soothsayer Euthyphrōn on the porch of the king magistrate, after having already been accused of impiety by Meletos (a serious charge), whereupon the two begin a conversation on the meaning of piety and justice.

For those of you who have much to do, since this is an audiobook, it should be an easy matter to just get this going and listen to it while performing mundane tasks.