Euthyphro Vs Socrates Analysis

These are Euthyphro’s word to Socrates in one of Plato’s early dialogue. The dialogue happened before the trial of Socrates. Euthyphro had come to prosecute his father for a murder case against one of his workers while Socrates was also facing charges (Plato, Euthyphro, 2d). Socrates was trying to gather information from the religious expert so as to be able to defend himself when he is brought before the court of law. Socrates particularly wanted to know how Euthyphro determines whether one is pious or impious and how the god’s influence and relation to this. However, we later find out that Euthyphro accepts that most of his statement contained flaws and instead of trying to mend the flaws he moves on and leaves Socrates in an ironic state. Socrates was all after understanding a clear definition of holiness as he had earlier on claimed that only the gods approves what is right (Plato & David, 74).

This is the moment that Euthyphro gave this statement. Socrates suggests that indeed there are several cases where the idea of holiness is not always a major concern. He also points out that if holiness was a part of justice, then there must be a method of defining holiness through analyzing different methods of justice. To differentiate among the two statements Euthyphro suggests that the past of justice that is mostly involved in ascertaining and analyzing the gods is holly while that of analyzing the human beings is not yet. Through this, he means that justice upon attending to the god’s is pious while that attending to normal human beings is impious. Here, piety describes what the god’s means. This helps us to relate how one can be holy or unholy considering whether the gods shows love or