Plato's dialogue Euthyphro takes place outside the court of Athens, after coming across Euthyphro and learning why Euthyphro is there, Socrates is not convinced that Euthyphro prosecuting his father for murder is the right or pious thing to do Do. He asks Euthyphro to educate him on what piety and impiety are, so that he can see for himself whether or not what Euthyphro is doing to his father is a pious act. This will be just the beginning of a rigorous discussion of what godliness and godlessness are. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay. Euthyphro tries for the first time to explain to Socrates what piety and impiety are by giving examples. He says that "the pious must do what I am doing now, prosecute the wrongdoer, whether it is for murder or temple robbery or whatever, whether the wrongdoer is your father or your mother or anyone else." Socrates then complains that he wants to know what piety and impiety are but not a list of pious and impious things. For example, let's consider an analogous case where two people share a domino pizza and if one of them wants to make a pizza at home. But if he doesn't know anything about making pizza at home and so he asks his friend who seems quite knowledgeable about pizza, What is pizza? and if he says that what we eat is pizza, what the people over there eat is pizza, what we ate last night is pizza and so on. Then obviously the person will get angry because they wanted an explanation on what pizza is, that is, what it is made of, what the essential ingredients of pizza are and how it is different from pasta and so on. But simply pointing out the cases of pizza is of little help to the person. Likewise Socrates is interested in what pity is, that is, what it is composed of, what are the essential things to distinguish it from other qualities such as mercy or kindness. Euthyphro then defines piety and impiety as "what is dear to the gods is pious, what is not is impious." So Socharates tries to relate this to what he previously confirmed in the discussion that Euthyphro believes in the Greek gods and all the stories about them. For example, he believes that they fight, that there is a war between them, and that they disagree about many things. Remembering this point, Socrates points out that this will prove problematic for Euthyphro's definition of piety. Consider that what is dear to the gods is pious and what is not dear to the gods is impious, and therefore if some gods disagree and quarrel over what is dear to them, then it will turn out that the same action will be both pious and wicked, for it will be dear to some gods and not dear to others.