Plato’s Euthyphro is a complex work that was carefully writ

Plato’s Euthyphro is a complex work that was carefully written and carefully crafted to present and consider a series of arguments, as well as to force its reader to consider broader issues that are not explicitly brought to their attention in the dialogue of the text. These broader issues are brought to the attention of the reader through specific arguments made by Socrates against definitions given by Euthyphro in that, the thought process necessary …showed first 75 words of 1649 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1649 total…that the reader will draw their own conclusions. The idea of God as a social institution is unnatural to some people and thus is understandably difficult to accept. This is why Plato does not come right out and say that man as an individual does not need God, or that society as a whole does. He relies on the reader to make that connection for themselves, putting the emphasis on the reader as an individual.