Rhetorical Analysis On Euthyphro

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Euthyphro focuses on what is pious and impious for this section, describing pious as “what all gods love” and impious as “what all gods hate”. Socrates states, "I give you that all the Gods hate what your father did; I waive the point about one God's hating what another God loves; if you like, say that the pious is what all the Gods love and the impious is what all the Gods hate, so as to be sure that the same act is not both pious and impious. Even so, will your account of piety and impiety stand?" (9c-e). He begins to question exactly what pious and impious stands for because he believes it is wrong for Euthyphro to punish his father. For Euthyphro's argument to be even slightly reliable, he has to show not that all the gods agree that someone
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