Euthyphro

Euthyphro is the self satisfied jerk who meets the incarcerated Socrates on the way to charging his own father of murder.  The dialog is about the nature of good and evil.  Euthyphro cannot respond with a general or fundamental definition of piety, only gives examples.  The Euthyphro dilemma is the question of whether piety (the good) is commanded by the gods because it is good, or because it is commanded by the gods.  Leads to the idea of whether there is really a moral good or is it given by God.  Also there is the question of the actual death of the slave, the father had accosted the slave for killing another, tied him up and went to get the authorities but the slave died.  In addition, the accused is Euthyphro’s father for heaven’s sake, who is he to bring charges against his old man.