Enlightenment?” & Plato’s Meno Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, and Plato, a Greek philosopher, each wrote an independent work separated by 2000 years. Kant wrote, “What is Enlightenment?”, an article detailing the approach a society must take to become enlightened. Plato wrote Meno, a dialogue between two people: Socrates and Meno, who attempt to determine the definition of virtue. Although the topics of the works seem to have no overlap, the ideas of Kant are reflected in Meno. I will begin my
as Euthyphro claims to have a knowledge of this subject and on Socrates request, he attempts to define it. Socrates does not agree with Euthyphro’s version of piety and keeps pushing him to accurately define it and finally at one point Euthyphro says he is in a hurry and walks away. Socrates is neither agreeing with Euthyphro’s definition nor imposing his own definition but rather as he says in “Apology” -that it is his duty to question people’s claims to knowledge and that is what he seems to be