Analyzing Plato's 'The Euthyphro Dilemma'

The Euthyphro Dilemma The Euthyphro Dilemma, written by Plato, is a famous dialogue exchange between Socrates and Euthyphro in front of the Porsche of King Archon. Socrates supposedly poses as the disciple while Euthyphro takes the teacher approach, but ironically Socrates is actually the one indoctrinating Euthyphro. This conversation takes place sometime before Socrates‘s death sentence and during the action of Euthyphro charging his own father of murder. This situation astonished Socrates causing him to ask Euthyphro for his own meaning of “piety,” which follows with the famous argument, “Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” According to the meta-ethics view, is an action