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Holiness In Plato's 'Euthyphro'

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In his powerful dialogue “Euthyphro”, Plato utilizes a simple conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro pertaining to the definition of piety to argue that Euthyphro is not the expert in religion that he appears to be. Euthyphro defines holiness in ways such as indicting religious criminals, as something being supported by all the gods, as a form of fairness, and as an exchange between a person and a god. Euthyphro states that holiness is indicting religious criminals, although Socrates finds this response disagreeable because of the fact that there are countless acts that can be considered holy. Euthyphro then goes on to declare that holiness is simply something that is approved of by all the gods, although Socrates questions this statement

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