Euthyphro (Annotated)

Plato's Euthyphro is a compact yet profound Socratic dialogue set in the charged atmosphere before Socrates' trial. At the King Archon's court, Socrates meets Euthyphro, a self-assured religious expert prosecuting his own father for homicide. Through lucid dramatic irony and relentless elenchus, Plato examines the nature of piety, exposing the instability of definitions grounded merely in divine a...