Plato,  428? BCE-348? BCE <br/><br/>
Euthyphro 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro  Release date is 1999-02-01 
<br/><br/>Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger  Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "Euthyphro" by Plato is a philosophical dialogue written around 399 BC. Set outside an Athenian court, it follows Socrates as he awaits trial for impiety. He encounters Euthyphro, a confident prophet prosecuting his own father for murder. Socrates asks Euthyphro to define piety, sparking a rigorous examination that produces increasingly refined definitions—yet none prove satisfactory. Their discussion culminates in a famous dilemma about the gods' relationship to goodness, launching a debate that continues millennia later. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Classical literature Piety -- Early works to 1800 Socrates, 470 BC-399 BC Philosophy, Ancient 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B  PA