Piety In Socrates And Euthyphro's Death

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Euthyphro is a philosophical talk that Socrates has with a young man named Euthyphro, who is taking his father to court for allowing one of the laborers to die. Socrates questions Euthyphro about the person that was killed to see whether they were a relative of the family, or not (4b). Euthyphro is a religious man, and his father did allow a person to die. To Uethyphro it does not matter if the deceased is family or stranger. His father left the laborer, whom just murdered one of the family servants, “bound” up “hand and foot, and threw him into a ditch,” while he sent a had a man find out from Athens what should be done (4c). The person whom killed one of the servants died while waiting to see what his fate would be. “Euthyphro is suing his father for killing a …show more content…
Socrates is also going to trial for this reason as well, he is being accused of corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates has the idea of becoming the pupil of Euthyphro, so he could use it against his accuser Meletus (5a). This is where the philosophical question of what is “piety” begins. Socrates asks for the definition of “piety and impiety, and to keep it within the confines of murder and all other cases” (5b). The definition is given in regard to the situation Euthyphro is in, “prosecuting the wrongdoer, whoever it may be” (5b). Throughout this examination of “piety,” Socrates brings up the gods and shows that they are not perfect, using Zeus shackling “his own father” (6a). Socrates shows Euthyphro that the gods are guilty of the same manner, so he changes his definition, “holiness is what the gods all love” (9e). They
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