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This assignment is due Sunday, September 13 at 11:59 pm (almost midnight).
Write a 500 to 750-word essay responding to the following prompt.
We discussed how the Wrongdoer passage (8b-8e) in Plato’s Euthyphro supported the relationship between justice and piety that asserts that piety is a part of justice, i.e., “all that is pious is of necessity just” (11e). For this paper,
1) provide a concise and clear summary of the Wrongdoer passage and
2) how it supports that relationship. Also,
3) state with which of the five possible relationships between justice and piety you are most in agreement and
4) explain why.