Piety In Euthyphro's Argument Essay

Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro is conversation about Piety between Socrates and young man whose name is Euthyphro. Beginning of book, both two guys meet on the courts. Socrates is under indictment by Meletus for corrupting young peoples and not believing in gods in that the city believes, Euthyphro’s business at court is that he prosecuting his father for the murder of a slave.
Beginning of dialog, Socrates and Euthyphro are trying to protect themselves from their situation. Socrates’s pleading is that complaining to Athenians about giving wisdom to peoples from wise guy which is himself. And Euthyphro is trying to justification about his prosecuting. From that conversation, few main questions were argued between Euthyphro and Socrates. First question is about Piety. Euthyphro claimed that piety is things that what he just did. Which is prosecuting peoples who did illegal or dishonest things. And against to the Socrates, he said things that can make gods happy is pious, and things that are not is the impious. After Euthyphro …show more content…
First of all, what is piety and what kind of things can be determine as impiety. From the dialog between Socrates and Euthyphro, I couldn’t really find true meaning of the piety and impiety. Also, there weren’t any explanation about what is piety and impiety. So what I think about the piety by inference is that the Piety is thing that can’t be truly define. Also by pleading and conversation about pious between two mans, Socrates wanted to complain about the society that is full of hypocrisy and duplicity. Secondly, from my opinion, by this dialog, Socrates wanted to make roundabout counterargument to his indictment. So he can criticize to weak logical basis of Meletus and Athenians. And finally Socrates can make important point that his behavior was not the things that can make trouble or can be indicted but the problem was ignorance of