Piety

norms of ‘filial piety’ is rooted in China. The majority of interviewed government officials and managers in care agencies suggest the role of family (spouse and children) is the first source for care services and financial support for older people. Some interviewers express their opinions that the supports from children to older parents should be made compulsory/regulated by laws. Example: ‘the role of family must be healthy or good. If the children do not show the filial piety to their parents…

filial piety in the relation of parenting style and prosocial behavior among Chinese adolescents. It presents the results and discussion of perceived maternal parenting style, Chinese adolescents’ filial piety and prosocial behavior. Moreover, it shows the results and discussion of how parenting style affect prosoical behavior and how filial piety influence prosoical behavior. Results This part shows the descriptive statistics of perceived maternal parenting style, adolescents’ filial piety and…

both centered around the issue of piety and what constitutes piety. The Bacchae delves a little further into piety by also elaborating on the repercussions of being impious. Both works were written around 400 BCE and share a common thread in regards to attempting to convert people to their respective ways of thinking. However it can certainly be concluded that the two works take very different approaches in order to gain followers. While focusing on the issue of piety, the Bacchae and Euthyphro…

This is the first definition that Euthyphro offers to Socrates as a definition of piety. Although Socrates says this is a definition of what piety is, he says that it is inadequate because it only states one instance of piety. Socrates states that he did not want Euthyphro to tell him one or two of the many pious actions but the form itself that makes all pious actions pious. With the statement, all impious actions are impious and all pious actions pious proves that this is not a valid…

The story of “Shen Xiu Causes Seven Deaths with One Bird” is about the main character, Shen Xiu, who’s bird literally causes seven deaths. The story begins in the third year of the Xuanhe regin period under Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty. A weaver named Shen Yu lived with his wife named Yan by the New North Bridge, outside Wuilin Gate, in the prefecture of Ninghai. The couple had an eighteen year old son named Shen Xiu who was not yet married. “The father made his living by weaving fabrics,…

In Plato’s first dialog Euthyphro, there are two characters introduced, Socrates and Euthyphro. The two of them have a discussion about what brought them to the king-archon’s court. The discussion leads to an argument between the two about what piety is. The Euthyphro dialog illustrates to the reader what brought them there, the true philosophical dilemma for Euthyphro, and the false dilemma for Socrates that relates to arguments employed later by Socrates in Plato 's apology dialog. In the…

Thoughts on the Role of Women In the autobiographical Confessions of St. Augustine, Augustine suggests that women are not of God; St. Augustine makes frequent suggestion to the unholy nature of women, and suggests that women cannot be as honorable or as wholesome as their male counterparts. St. Augustine continues in this thought by declaring that women may only seek holiness and approval by God through the sanctified nature of their husbands, by associating their self-worth to them; a man…

several different traits attributed to him throughout the story; piety, internal strife, and action. These traits can all be classified as loyalty or as a direct result of loyalty. This paper will show that these traits are a result of loyalty, but that they are necessary aspects to a leader in both The Aeneid and in the present. Aeneas is presented as the epitome of piety several times in The Aeneid. Aeneas’s character shows piety as fidelity to the gods and he shows his reverence by putting…

Euthyphro explains the use of piety again, Socrates restates into more detail piety and impiety in the way that Euthyphro means it. This is the instance at which Socrates states “An action or a person that I beloved by the gods is pious, while an action or person that is despised by the gods is impious. They are not the same, but complete opposites” (7a. p.5). It seeks that Socrates fully understands the meaning of what Euthyphro explication is when it comes to piety however he also comes to the…

impious for a son to prosecute his father for murder. Socrates thinks that Euthyphro should make sure that he truly knows what piety and impiety so he doesn't wrongly bring his father to trial. Euthyphro is not worried about the rightness of his actions because he thinks that he firmly believes that he has an accurate knowledge about piety and based on what he knows about piety, his accusation is correct. 7. It is definitely important to examine the connection between wisdom and human action.…