Piety

very wise according to his daemon because he did not claim to know more than he did. Many people today see Socrates 6as an icon to be cherished forever because of his “wisdom”, but people forget to ask where his moral philosophy comes from. Socratic Piety is the term that shows the influences that Socrates’s God had on moral philosophy and other viewpoints. While Socrates’s moral philosophy was revolutionary for the time, his views on death are very interesting as he was not afraid of it. Many…

other, they still share some similarities. In the textbook, Kongzi and Laozi’s teachings serve as a good example. In the Analects, Kongzi emphasizes on ren and xiao which mean benevolence and filial piety, respectively. He believes that filial piety and benevolence are interconnected and says “filial piety and respect for elders constitute the root of Goodness. (Analects, 1.2)” On the contrary, Laozi suggests in the Daodejing that “cut off benevolence, abandon righteousness, and people will…

the time, the Buddhism that had entered China did not adhere to their beliefs about filial piety. To the majority of Chinese, they saw Buddhists as people who had abandoned their parents and left them to take care of themselves-- quite the opposite of filial piety. However, with the story Mu-lien rescuing his mother, this changed and allowed Buddhism to promote itself as a religion that encourages filial piety, contrary to what Confucians would say. Mu-Lien clearly saves his mother from hell…

Rose offers the Holocaust piety to examine the dangers of private, individual mourning. She does this by drawing on Goethe’s story, Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship and ‘the beautiful soul’. ‘The beautiful soul’ is ‘a learned but sickly female,’ who ‘retires from the world to cultivate her deepening religious piety, but … fails to find any means of public expression, or any bridge back into ethical and political life,’ and thus, she ‘pines away in consumption and dies’ (Rose, 1993: 178).…

Filial Piety and its Consequences William Shakespeare’s Hamlet explores the relationships between parents and their grown children and the consequences of those relationships. The bond between child and parent is different than any other type of love. The child is clearly subordinate to the older and more powerful parent, and for many children, parents act as their largest role models. Prince Hamlet of Demark loses his father two months before the start of the play, and the narrative consists…

In Politics of Piety, Saba Mahmood does an amazing job at portraying the women’s mosque movement in Egypt in a new, less reductionistic light as opposed to the conventional approaches used by many scholars of feminism and theorists of agency. While Mahmood’s book revolves around these popular piety movements of the 90s, this book is much more than just an ethnographic inquiry; it is a scathing critique of secular liberal feminism, which has at times been exploited to serve imperial projects and…

barrier that the age old doctrine of Confucianism has situated in front of this new frontier for Asian American youth must be assessed, analyzed and annihilated. In this study, the inherent history of Confucianism and one of its major facets, filial piety, will be examined and discussed in order to evaluate the extent of influence of traditional Asian conventions on the identity development of Asian American adolescents, particularly those who are artistically-inclined. Additionally, this study…

Davis calls her piety into question, even claiming that it is extremely possible that she may have turned toward Protestantism in light of the situation. She has very little support for this opinion, and it is most likely a biased conclusion she drew in order to support…

of domesticity is what defined a true woman in the mid to late 1800’s. With this mindset of true womanhood, a lady was expected to be pious, pure, domestic, and submissive. Piety was an important quality for a woman to have, because she was supposed to be the spiritual leader of the family. A woman’s purpose, as far as piety went, was to bring her husband back to God. Next, a woman was to be pure. The main point of purity was for a woman to stay faithful to her husband sexually, but it could…

nation, in that he was impious and corrupting the youth with his beliefs. However, Socrates found that “piety” was subjective, saying that his relentless search to confirm the words of the Oracle made him “In ten-thousandfold poverty because of [my] devotion to the god.” In this quote, Socrates alludes to the ambiguity that exists in the legal system, specifically in defining the nature of piety. Given the similarly ambiguous terminology of the HLP case, I believe that Socrates would not find it…