Keeping one's own prejudices and ideas hidden and letting the other person say their piece allows them to understand the whole picture. In Euthyphro, Socrates asks Euthyphro many questions: So he is loved because he is pious, but is he not pious because he is loved? (Euthyphro 12d) But what kind of care of the gods would pity be? (Euthyphro 16d) ). The constant repetition of questions and confirmations in Euthyphro's reasoning is what helps Socrates ultimately prove Euthyphro wrong. As Socrates' conversation becomes deeper and deeper, the questions and answers tend to go astray, he begins to nitpick every detail that the big picture is often forgotten, so as a man who lives with a philosophical attitude, he must clarify what wants
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