1. While Socrates and Euthyphro talk outside the king’s porch, Euthyphro tells Socrates that he is there to accuse his old father for killing one of his employees. Socrates surprised, answers that it should not be an easy task to accuse his own family that perhaps if it were a stranger would otherwise. An indignant Euthyphro replies that it is ridiculous to think if it is family or not, the only thing should be consider is whether the murderer did fairly or not. To this fact, Socrates suspected Euthyphro is a wise man, and possesses knowledge of what is piety and thus makes it known to Euthyphro, to which he affirm that he is, by the grace of Zeus, that this makes him different from the rest of the Athenians.
2. Socrates presses Euthyphro to define what piety is, because despite the multiple attempts, Euthyphro does to define it and does not succeed on his answers. Socrates brings down all his explanations using his dialectic method. Even so Euthyphro insist on knowing what piety is, so Socrates continues to insist and demand a clear proof of what is piety. After several attempts the only thing that he manages to say is, that holy is what he does, when he accused his father of murder. Socrates asked Euthyphro not to taught him one or two holy things, but rather to teach clearly what is what makes things holy, since …show more content…
Socrates asks if the gods love pious because it is pious, or is just pious because it is loved by the gods? In other words, the gods love something because it is pious, or is it pious because the gods love? Socrates and Euthyphro both accept the first option: surely the gods love pious because it is pious. But this means, Socrates argues, we are forced to reject the second option: that the love of the gods cannot explain why the pious is pious. This is because, if both options are true, together produce a vicious circle, in which the gods love pious because it is the pious, and the pious is pious because the gods love