Concept
Piety
Overview
Piety is a virtue which may include religious devotion or spirituality. A common element in most conceptions of piety is a duty of respect. In a religious context, piety may be expressed through pious activities or devotions, which may vary among countries and cultures.
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Is not piety in every action always the same? and impiety, again—is it not always the opposite of piety, and also the same with itself, having, as impiety, one notion which includes whatever is impious? [Sidenote: Piety is doing as I am doing;—like Zeus, I am proceeding against my father.] _Euth._ To be sure, Socrates. _Soc._ And what is piety, and what is impiety?
Plato, The dialogues of Plato in five volumes, Vol. 2
Names Piety several times; states what Piety is.
Now, as the asker of a question is necessarily dependent on the answerer, whither he leads I must follow; and can only ask again, what is the pious, and what is piety? Do you mean that they are a sort of science of praying and sacrificing?
Plato, Euthyphro
Names Piety several times; states what Piety is.
"Piety," again, or, as the Greeks say, εὐσέβεια, is commonly understood as the proper designation of the worship of God. Yet this word also is used of dutifulness to parents.
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
States what Piety is; names Piety.
Philosophers who discussed Piety
Related ideas
- Anglicanism
- John Calvin
- Latin
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Thomas Aquinas
- Lutheranism
- Pope John Paul II
- Religion
- Spirituality
- Virtue
- Ancient Rome
- Cicero
- Cardinal virtues
- Filial piety
Place in the tradition
Part of Divine command theory.