This Platonic dialogue mostly consists of the constant questioning of piety on Socrates’ end and trying to explain what it is on Euthyphro’s end. Plato’s principle goal was to link the inconclusiveness of the dialogue between the two and the irony Socrates employs, all while urging the readers to think independently and struggle to create an adequate definition of piety without the actual clarified answer. Socrates uses an ironic approach, called the dialectic method, where he tries to indirectly
Dialectic into the nature of piety. Euthyphro gives multiple definitions for piety and each one is denounced by Socratic Dialectic. The act of begging clarification involved in Dialectic, forces the one who gives the definitive answers to really question his own knowledge and belief systems. There is a major philosophical conundrum implicitly defined within the dialogue known as The Euthyphro Dilemma. The dilemma is as follows: Based on one of Euthyphro’s definitions of piety as an action that the Gods