itö (11b).
The love of wisdom we see Socrates express in the Euthyphro is the passion a philosopher must embrace if he is to move from ignorance to belief to true knowledge. We will find out in other dialogues that Plato believes such true knowledge can only be known in death, when the soul is released from the limitations of the body and mind. Only love of wisdom has a chance of arriving at the true essence of a thing, like beauty or love or in this case, piety. I believe that this passage clearly shows that quite often humans act or express in a manner that demonstrates they have absolute knowledge of a thing, but in reality absolute definitions are difficult to come by in light of human limitations of knowing the true essence of things like virtue, justice, truth, and piety.
In the Apology, we are provided with SocratesÆ defense of himself against the charges of Meletus that he has exhibited impiety by not believing in gods and that he converts a weaker argument into a stronger one. One passage
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