Euthyphro Piety

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In the end of the dialogue, Socares did not seem to give a definition about piety.However, Through the dialogue we can realize how Socares use his questioning method to make Euthyphro understands a problem. With his method, even thought he did not provide the definition of piety but he ask question step by step to led Euthyphro answer. Their answers from Euthyphro which is helped EUTHYPHRO know the way to find for himself about what exactly piety. Thus, we know more about piety at the end of the dialogue than we knew at the

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