... esoteric knowledge of piety, and holds fast to his claim even though Socrates clearly refutes it. Socrates: A seventy year old, short, snub-nosed philosopher on his way to answer charges against himself. He is a kind-hearted and good-spirited fellow, eager to converse with nearly anyone, as he truly loves ... a Socratic question, "What is piety?" and working through arguments to arrive at a credible answer. There are however, several important and underlying arguments going on beneath the surface of the text. Plato has written this book in his usual dialectic fashion, which was also con...

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