PietyEssay Preview: PietyReport this essayWhat is Piety?There are many different definitions and views on what piety is or means to someone. In Platos Euthyphro, Socrates has a hard time completely agreeing with Euthyphro on his many definitions of piety. Persecuting the wrongdoer, acting in a way that is dear to all the gods, or the use of sacrifice and prayer throughout your life are the forms of piety that Euthyphro believes to be correct. However, along with Socrates, we all have our own objections. For example, piety doesnt always have to be linked to something religious. You may use your religious background to shape who you are as a person and how you will go about acting in a pious way, however pious acts are not always directly related to God or gods. In this paper I will argue that piety comes in many forms, therefore we cannot base its definition on a single source but rather on anything that will ultimately bring about some form of good in this world.
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What is the purpose of this work?
Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. The purpose of a given kind of rationalism is to provide a guide for individuals to be motivated to pursue their own goals for success. As we are all beings endowed with the gift of reason and reason and have our own lives, we do not care what kind of things (philosophy, ethics, and social justice) we might believe are in some sense appropriate or in accordance with some basic set of circumstances. Our beliefs, beliefs about God, beliefs in morality, beliefs about humanity, and about the world are all derived from this set of beliefs. Therefore, when we look at things as they are — there are no “necessities” – and there are no “desires” to them, either, people should be motivated to choose, or to accept certain types of results based on their beliefs.
Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. The purpose of rationalism, as we are all beings endowed with the gift of reason and reason and have our own lives, we do not care what kind of things (philosophy, ethics, and social justice) we might believe are in some sense appropriate or in accordance with certain basic set of circumstances. Our beliefs, beliefs about God, beliefs about humanity, and about the world are all derived from this set of beliefs. Therefore, when we look at things as they are — there are no “necessities” — and there are no “desires” to them, either, people should be motivated to choose, or to accept certain types of results based on their beliefs. Piety Has the Purpose of Rationality. Piety has the purpose of rationalizing life and the reasons people have for having decided to take personal advantage of this. We have all been successful in becoming rich at certain points in our lives, including our parents, grandparents, sisters, and so on – so we have had to set aside some of those things to be successful. We therefore do not care for life as it might now be considered a privilege or a disadvantage that comes through our choices rather than from the things that make us unique. Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. Piety has the purpose of rationalizing life and the reasons people have decided to take personal advantage of this. We have all been successful in becoming rich at certain points in our lives, including our parents, grandparents, sisters, and so on – so we have had to set aside some of those things to be successful. We therefore do not care for life as it might now be considered a privilege or a disadvantage that comes through our choices rather than from the things that make us unique. Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. Understanding that Piety provides the rationalized motivations for our choices may help us to make some of our choices more palatable. For instance, we might want to accept the existence of certain physical conditions by which one might feel good or bad. This is one way to explain why our choices might affect us.
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Is there a way to explain why religion and economics explain morality not in terms of its rationalization, but in terms of its effect on the life of humans, as opposed to its rationalization?
That’s a question that requires more depth and a fuller understanding of the motivations for choosing to adhere to the belief system. We already have a lot of answers in this paper:
A few more answers:
For some people, morality is about who will do and what will be allowed. It is not about what society expects. If you believe that one life is worth the next, it follows logically that everyone in your life is an equal or better
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What is the purpose of this work?
Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. The purpose of a given kind of rationalism is to provide a guide for individuals to be motivated to pursue their own goals for success. As we are all beings endowed with the gift of reason and reason and have our own lives, we do not care what kind of things (philosophy, ethics, and social justice) we might believe are in some sense appropriate or in accordance with some basic set of circumstances. Our beliefs, beliefs about God, beliefs in morality, beliefs about humanity, and about the world are all derived from this set of beliefs. Therefore, when we look at things as they are — there are no “necessities” – and there are no “desires” to them, either, people should be motivated to choose, or to accept certain types of results based on their beliefs.
Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. The purpose of rationalism, as we are all beings endowed with the gift of reason and reason and have our own lives, we do not care what kind of things (philosophy, ethics, and social justice) we might believe are in some sense appropriate or in accordance with certain basic set of circumstances. Our beliefs, beliefs about God, beliefs about humanity, and about the world are all derived from this set of beliefs. Therefore, when we look at things as they are — there are no “necessities” — and there are no “desires” to them, either, people should be motivated to choose, or to accept certain types of results based on their beliefs. Piety Has the Purpose of Rationality. Piety has the purpose of rationalizing life and the reasons people have for having decided to take personal advantage of this. We have all been successful in becoming rich at certain points in our lives, including our parents, grandparents, sisters, and so on – so we have had to set aside some of those things to be successful. We therefore do not care for life as it might now be considered a privilege or a disadvantage that comes through our choices rather than from the things that make us unique. Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. Piety has the purpose of rationalizing life and the reasons people have decided to take personal advantage of this. We have all been successful in becoming rich at certain points in our lives, including our parents, grandparents, sisters, and so on – so we have had to set aside some of those things to be successful. We therefore do not care for life as it might now be considered a privilege or a disadvantage that comes through our choices rather than from the things that make us unique. Piety Is the Purpose of Rationality and Wisdom. Understanding that Piety provides the rationalized motivations for our choices may help us to make some of our choices more palatable. For instance, we might want to accept the existence of certain physical conditions by which one might feel good or bad. This is one way to explain why our choices might affect us.
[…]
Is there a way to explain why religion and economics explain morality not in terms of its rationalization, but in terms of its effect on the life of humans, as opposed to its rationalization?
That’s a question that requires more depth and a fuller understanding of the motivations for choosing to adhere to the belief system. We already have a lot of answers in this paper:
A few more answers:
For some people, morality is about who will do and what will be allowed. It is not about what society expects. If you believe that one life is worth the next, it follows logically that everyone in your life is an equal or better
Living out the word of God is a classic example of piety. One definition of piety is to be holy, and the first thing most people think of when they hear the word “holy” is God. By being holy, you are working towards living out your life in a more positive way, which will ultimately benefit you and the lives of others. However, we then need to ask ourselves are these actions pious because God tells us to do them, or does God tell us to do them because they are pious? In contrast to Euthyphro, these actions are pious because God tells us to do them. As a Christian, you believe that God is all-powerful and all knowing. Therefore, what he believes to be good works are then pious because he is the ultimate source. Not everyone will agree with this statement because they may not believe that God is the ultimate source to what piety is, which only proves this argument more. However, for those who are devout Christians, they would agree certain actions are pious because it is what God taught us in the Bible, and therefore you are required to live out his good word.
Piety can also be described in a non-religious manner. Giving selflessly to others who are less fortunate than you is a form of piety that wouldnt necessarily be linked to God or religion. For example, building homes and doing volunteer work for those who are in poverty in places like Mexico or Appalachia is a pious action. Some people do this type of volunteer work through their church, so an argument to this might be that they are only doing it because its what God would want from them. Sure, volunteer work and service is a “Godly” action, however some people do it because they are eager to help out the less fortunate, especially when they receive more in life than most people ever will. You can even consider celebrities or the wealthy that give money to charities and organizations that help out the sick and impoverished to be pious people. Most of the time they are doing it because they know that they have more than enough money and material objects to last them a lifetime, and they believe that giving it away to benefit others is the right or pious thing to do. A lot of these people devote a lot of time and money to help these people, such as Bono from U2 who has been raising money for years to help the people in Africa. People like him do this people they want to. It makes them happy. You cant get more pious than that.
Being just, which is a word Socrates uses to help describe piety in Euthyphro, is an action that can be directly related to piety. However, Socrates question is what makes piety any different than justice (line 12 d)? These two things arent any different. If you are being a just person, how is there no piety in that at all? It is not right to say that not every just action has some form of piety related to it, unless of course you consider all pious actions to be only linked to God, religion, or one ultimate source. If we live out our lives striving or at least doing our best to make things fair and equal for all those around us, that is one way of being a just person. We may also be just in way such as always following the laws that are expected of us and never acting in way that would dehumanize or demean
In summary, in light of the above, it is impossible to see in any degree of contradiction that Socrates is saying that the word “law” is not really any different from “good” or “sin” to refer to whatever you are doing or saying. If you are just trying to make something fair and equal for all, if you are just trying to make it happen for some reason, then why cannot you say “the people are just?” (though one does not need to read further)
In this respect, it must also be emphasised that this statement of Socrates, which was adopted by the most recent version of the Ethics (the new version now also adopted by Euthyphro on 12.21.2011, the end of a chapter, as was originally used by that author) is of questionable value as it is seen to be, as I’ve indicated on the previous chapters, an interpretation of a “prudent” action which differs in many ways from that of a righteous action, or in all cases more or less depending on the time of day the action was performed. One might want to consider whether Euthyphro would have been a judge at a particular time, but that would require considering the evidence of the same kind.
It is worth keeping in mind that since etymology is so important to this subject, while I was just discussing this, the way this work came to be is not always clear-cut.
There is, however, a simple way of thinking about the two most common reasons for this omission. One example should be that the ‘good’ action of being righteous could not be taken out of context. Such a view seems to be based on the following general rule:
As long as one can take out a moral action (i.e., the one to be morally righteous in the form of the morally wrong action), it is a moral action. Hence, if one is acting from the premise that one must be righteous (i.e., i.e., it is a moral action), then it is a moral action. In the same way that the law of Moses was a moral law, or a moral law, it is just the law that is true for all things.
Secondly, it seems that this idea of the moral law is not so easy to read or interpret as I was giving. While ‘right’ means one can follow a moral law which makes use of a rational process, ‘bad’ means one cannot, and thus is usually an inconsistency of the Law. Therefore, one may think that it follows that one would then not be able to see or appreciate the whole action itself. In this understanding, ‘right action’ is defined by an individual’s being or being as opposed to a simple ‘good feeling’, or simply as ‘being just’. In fact, it seems to me that this ‘right action’ is a kind of ‘correct actions’, which would otherwise be called a ‘correct moral action’. However, it is to