When I say that the 1) author of The Apology was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, it is identical to saying that the 2) author of The Republic was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. ... At Euthyphro 11d, Euthyphro states that he believes the pious is loved by the gods because it is inherently pious and for no other reason. ... Socrates could have argued that the stories of the gods are up to interpretation and there is no way Euthyphro can actually use the stories as justification for knowing what piety is because everyone arrives at a different conclusion based...

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It is notably the reason the Ancient Greeks built temples and made offerings to their gods, and the reason Christians today pray and attempt to contact God. ... Plato noted that there is necessity 'to end the series of causes,' one might perceive this to be a primitive version of Leibniz's logic that there must be a sufficient reason for the initiation of a series. ... In the dialogue Meno Socrates attempts to demonstrate this argument using a slave boy with no previous knowledge of geometry. ... Plato used this argument as the basis for his doctrine on the Forms. ...

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