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of justice, or is justice a special type of piety? Justice,
of course, is sort of the mother of virtues of the Greeks.
Then it turns out to be the major premise, justice, and
a special form of it is piety, which can be diagramed.
Similarly, fear does not necessarily imply reverence, but
reverence necessarily implies fear, Reverence is a special
form of fear. He takes Euthyphro around the track two or
three times as they try to sort out piety, leads him into
at least three dead ends, at which time Euthyphro disappears
from the scene, a victim of reductio ad absurdum - the
name of the game of contradictions fustrating progress,
which Socrates practices to perfection.
Apology, a second dialogue meaning defence in court.
The scene, where Socrates in his words, charged with speculation
about the heavens, earth, and areas under the earth, mis-
guiding youth, and making the better argument seem worse,
brings up the Aristophenes play, The Clouds. The teind? was in 399
and the play had appeared on "Broadway" 24 years earlier, societies did not claim ?. He thought
it was a preposterous play but he said he went to is as he would
to a drinking party - to have fun, not to take it seriously, and that
those who thought it was prejudicial to his case shouldn't
worry about it. He was charged with impiety, and yet, one
of the Greeks had gone to the oracle Adelphi and recorded
the fact that upon asking the oracle who was the wisest
of all men, that they gave the name Socrates. Well, he took

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