Crito

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trongly about his beliefs that he died for them. In my perspective there are only a few men like that in the world today.
1. Euthyphro’s first definition of piety suggests that those who commit injustices is pious, and not prosecuting them is impious. Socrates makes the point that prosecuting those who commit injustices is pious is merely an example of a pious act, not a definition of piety. Socrates says to Euthyphro. “You did not teach me adequately when I asked what the pious was, but you told me that…prosecuting your fater, is pious”(6d). Socrates questions Euthyphro about weather there are other possible acts of piety, and Euthyphro realizes that there are a great number of pious acts that do not involve prosecuting a wrongdoer. Euthyphro is pressed by Socrates to come up with a more general definition to identify a basic standard by which all pious acts can be recognized as.
Socrates tells Euthyphro to bear in mind that he did not ask Euthyphro to tell him of the many pious actions, but rather of the “form itself that make...