Logic and the Art of Speaking

The texts from Euthyphro revealed a great deal about the values of Plato. He seemed to greatly appreciate the freedom to think as one chooses, as his protagonist and mentor, Socrates, is put on trial for speaking of different gods then the standard Greek gods. In this train of thought, Plato also felt that man's spiritual life was extremely important, as was metaphysical philosophy. So the fact that the issue of gods could go to a court in a city-state as open minded as Athens is a great statement toward Plato's personal values. However, I found that Plato's greatest passions were that of logic and of rhetoric, which Socrates made use of when turning Euthyphro's hypothesis of the gods on its head. He appreciated the art of conversation as a whole and it was shown by Socrates and his passive ability to manipulate the faulty logic his young student (which was notorious of Socrates' teaching style, enabling the student to see the error of their ways on their own by simply asking questions.) Plato's analysis on the quarrels of the gods and the definition of piousness shows that he appreciated deep thought and paradoxes along with other logical flaw and his way of speaking and expressing this knowledge to others was also something he was very fond of. It really came across that Plato was fond of his old teacher's style of educating as throughout the whole of the dialogues Socrates is used as the protagonist, but also constantly bombards his curious student with question after question about a situation until they come to the conclusion that he had already found. I suppose this also shows Plato really cared about individual realization of a situation and valued any man that could aid someone to realizing a solution without being given the straight facts, which evolves into an appreciation for individualism as a whole. That is a bulky assumption, however I am comfortable making it based on this one dialogue.