Socrates Piety Analysis

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When Socrates asks, “what is piety” to Euthyphro, he is asking what makes pious actions pious (6,d). First, the conversation begins because of Socrates’ surprise over Euthyphro’s plan to prosecute his father for murder (3,b). However, Euthyphro believes that being pious means to act justly and being impious means to act unjustly and it does not matter who the person is that is being punished for the action (4,b). However, Socrates considers if different Gods could hold different opinions than other gods, how then would certain actions decidedly be pious or impious if not all of the gods could come to a final opinion (7,e) and they also may not be able to agree on who the person is that is being impious (8,d). Socrates compares this situation to people who hold different opinions and sometimes become angry towards one another and with this, and then the same thing must occur with the gods (7,c). Through this long discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro, Socrates comes to a conclusion that when something or someone is pious, then there is justice, however, when there is justice, then piety does not always occur (12,d) in the sense that the decision made against the “wrongdoer” may not always be just …show more content…
There is a passage in which Socrates tells Euthyphro that he likes Euthryphro’s wisdom and that whatever he says has no intention to fail, however, Socrates then follows by asking a new question to Euthyphro to deduce the meaning of what piety means (14, d). Socrates consistently asks Euthyphro to elaborate for more information (13,a) and Socrates seems to create the illusion through their discussion that Euthyphro is teaching Socrates everything in which they are discussing about piety and the
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