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What Is Piety
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During the Periclean age (around 400 B.C.) in Athens Greece there was a
man named Socrates. He was considered a very wise man by the Athenians. However
there were men in power who did not care for him or his teachings; Claiming that
he corrupted the Athenian youth and did not believe in the Greek g ....
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....ed you what the pious was, but you told me
that what you are doing now, prosecuting your father for murder is pious (Loc.
cit., 6d, p. 10) Socrates wants to know what piety is "through one form" (Loc.
cit., 6e, p.10). He does not want to know which things or actions are pious, but
rather what piety itself is. One cannot simply define something by giving
examples so this definition does not satisfy Socrates.
Euthyphro gives Socrates the second definition. He argues "what is dear
to the gods is p.... |
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