Euthyphro. Socrates makes an important point about holiness using metaphors about “carrying and being carried, seeing and being seen.” This leads to Socrates’ vague but plausible conclusion that what is holy and what is approved (loved) by the gods are not the same thing.
The main idea about piety and impiety underlies in Socrates’s question about holiness and its state of being approved by the gods. Socrates further explains his reasoning for his distaste