... means, that your mother and father are as important as the city and you should respect the city as so. Socrates describes the city and its laws more preciously. You don't have the same rights as your parents. They educated you and thought you the rules in the city that you should follow. They taught you which behavior is right and ... which is wrong. It is immoral to treat your parents the way they treat you. You don't have the rights to treat your parents the same way they treat you. That means that parents have a higher position in life than their children. It doesn't really matter wh...

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... a changed world. The presence of divinities, curses, and purging no longer hold such a large place in society. People are now consumed with ideas of justice and democracy – notions that don't include magical elements of previous worlds. This story presents people with too much fruitless history. It is a bad lie like "when a man in speck makes a bad representation of what ... the context of my religion. As someone who is raised Catholic, justice means following the 10 commandments. I have the utmost reverence for my parents, my siblings, and for God. However, I don't find that there is...

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... means that morality is independent of God, and that religion isn't essential to being good or pious. I do think that religion is a great way to enforce or encourage morality, but I don't think that one has to be religious to be moral. This is a pretty common objection to divine command theory, anyway. If one accepts the other side of the question, that ... . Also, I see no way to prove what God's will is, as I stated earlier. Our interpretation of God's will is completely dependent on the religious text we choose to follow. Lastly, I don't believe that morality is dependent on religion. ...

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... this definition is this question, do gods need our gifts? If we beg through prayers, we will sacrifice something. What can we give to gods that they need? That we don't know. Piety is knowledge of how to give to and beg from the gods (Euthyphro, 14d). What is a divine need? How to give and what we can sacrifice to the ... ...

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... what constituted holiness. He believed that holiness was a kind of justice that was for "looking after the Gods". Socrates again disagreed by saying that the Gods are all powerful and don't need to be looked after in any way. Again, Euthyphro rebutted by saying that sacrifices are made to the Gods in order to grant prayers. All this really accomplished was ... ...

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... what constituted holiness. He believed that holiness was a kind of justice that was for "looking after the Gods". Socrates again disagreed by saying that the Gods are all powerful and don't need to be looked after in any way. Again, Euthyphro rebutted by saying that sacrifices are made to the Gods in order to grant prayers. All this really accomplished was ... ...

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... 't steal his stuff and he won't steal my stuff, and we would come up with a punishment if one of us did steal. However, in order to make sure that we don't just say that we won't steal and then steal each others stuff, we would need our leviathan, our mutual friend "Frank." It is now Frank's job to make sure that ... ...

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