The Euthyphro is one of the most important works written by Plato for showing how the Socratic reasoning works. It follows a conversation between Socrates and a character named Euthyphro as they try to define what piety is. The conversation never uncovers the meaning of piety, even though Euthyphro affirms that he knows its meaning but fails to give a satisfactory definition. This paper will uncover the argumentative flaws committed by Euthyphro and how Socrates proposed to amend them to reach at a satisfactory definition of piety.
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