The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |         perjury—there can be no piety in that. Do not then require


Euthyphro
   Part
 2 Intro|       informed of the nature of piety and impiety; and as he is
 3 Intro|   unimpeachable authority) what piety is, and what is impiety.
 4 Intro|        is impiety. What then is piety?~Euthyphro, who, in the
 5 Intro|   responsibility, replies: That piety is doing as I do, prosecuting
 6 Intro|       to the question, ‘What is piety?’ ‘Doing as I do, charging
 7 Intro|         be a single instance of piety, but can hardly be regarded
 8 Intro|        Euthyphro replies, that ‘Piety is what is dear to the gods,
 9 Intro|        attribute or accident of piety only, and not the essence.
10 Intro|         what part of justice is piety?’ Euthyphro replies that
11 Intro|          Euthyphro replies that piety is that part of justice
12 Intro|    would rather say simply that piety is knowing how to please
13 Intro|     other words, says Socrates, piety is ‘a science of asking
14 Intro|         must know the nature of piety, or he would never have
15 Intro|        of knowing the nature of piety before he is prosecuted
16 Intro|     contrast the real nature of piety and impiety with the popular
17 Intro| endeavours to elicit from him. ‘Piety is doing as I do’ is the
18 Intro| referred.~The next definition, ‘Piety is that which is loved of
19 Intro|         act of being loved. But piety or holiness is preceded
20 Intro|      being loved; and therefore piety and the state of being loved
21 Intro|          and not the essence of piety.~Then follows the third
22 Intro|     third and last definition, ‘Piety is a part of justice.’ Thus
23 Intro|         gods,’ he replies, that piety is an affair of business,
24 Intro|      development of the idea of piety; (2) the antithesis of true
25 Intro|      Republic II. The virtue of piety has been already mentioned
26 Text |       what the gods think about piety and impiety.~SOCRATES: Good
27 Text |        to tell me the nature of piety and impiety, which you said
28 Text |     gods. What are they? Is not piety in every action always the
29 Text |      not always the opposite of piety, and also the same with
30 Text | Socrates.~SOCRATES: And what is piety, and what is impiety?~EUTHYPHRO:
31 Text |     what is impiety?~EUTHYPHRO: Piety is doing as I am doing;
32 Text |       to the question, What is ‘piety’? When asked, you only replied,
33 Text |        two or three examples of piety, but to explain the general
34 Text |      very much like.~EUTHYPHRO: Piety, then, is that which is
35 Text |  anything more of the nature of piety and impiety? for granting
36 Text |      hateful to the gods, still piety and impiety are not adequately
37 Text |       this be our definition of piety and impiety?~EUTHYPHRO:
38 Text |          And what do you say of piety, Euthyphro: is not piety,
39 Text |        piety, Euthyphro: is not piety, according to your definition,
40 Text |      once more what holiness or piety really is, whether dear
41 Text |    instruct me in the nature of piety; and I hope that you will
42 Text |      justice where there is not piety; for justice is the more
43 Text |        extended notion of which piety is only a part. Do you dissent?~
44 Text |       right.~SOCRATES: Then, if piety is a part of justice, I
45 Text |         what part of justice is piety or holiness, that I may
46 Text |         by you in the nature of piety or holiness, and their opposites.~
47 Text |     their opposites.~EUTHYPHRO: Piety or holiness, Socrates, appears
48 Text |         like manner holiness or piety is the art of attending
49 Text |      course.~SOCRATES: And does piety or holiness, which has been
50 Text |        the gods which is called piety?~EUTHYPHRO: It is such,
51 Text |          Let me simply say that piety or holiness is learning
52 Text |    prayers and sacrifices. Such piety is the salvation of families
53 Text |         this time the nature of piety. Now, as the asker of a
54 Text |       is the pious, and what is piety? Do you mean that they are
55 Text | SOCRATES: Upon this view, then, piety is a science of asking and
56 Text |        Socrates.~SOCRATES: Then piety, Euthyphro, is an art which
57 Text |         pleases them?~SOCRATES: Piety, then, is pleasing to the
58 Text |      assertion is repeated that piety is dear to the gods?~EUTHYPHRO:
59 Text |    begin again and ask, What is piety? That is an enquiry which
60 Text |   certainly known the nature of piety and impiety, I am confident
61 Text |     that you know the nature of piety and impiety. Speak out then,
62 Text |    instruct me in the nature of piety and impiety; and then I


Gorgias
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63 Intro|    easily feign the language of piety or virtue; and there is


Laws
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64 4    |         rightly hit the mark of piety. Next to these Gods, a wise
65 8    |      Athenian. The principle of piety, the love of honour, and
66 10   |         aside from your natural piety. Perhaps you have seen impious
67 11   |  general, who care little about piety and purity in their religious


The Republic
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68 10   |      soon as they were born. Of piety and impiety to gods and


The Seventh Letter
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69 Text |      mother I do not think that piety allows one to offer compulsion,
70 Text |        surprising. For a man of piety, temperance and wisdom,


The Statesman
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71 Intro|         self-moved; neither can piety allow that he goes at one


The Symposium
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72 Intro|        of merely human loves to piety and impiety. Such is the
73 Intro|        let us exhort all men to piety, that we may obtain the
74 Text |        let us exhort all men to piety, that we may avoid evil,


Theaetetus
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75 Text |       of justice and injustice, piety and impiety, they are confident