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What is piety?
Title: What is piety?
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
Details: Words: 943 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
What is piety?
What is Piety
During the Periclean age (around 400 B.C.) in Athens Greece there was a man named Socrates. He was considered a very wise man by the Athenians. However there were men in power who did not care for him or his teachings; Claiming that he corrupted the Athenian youth and did not believe in the Greek gods, Socrates was put on trail. On his way to his trial Socrates met a man named …showed first 75 words of 943 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 943 total…If it is dear to one god, is it not dear, to another? Can justice be split between men and gods? Is piety a sort of trading skill between gods and men? In conclusion it seems to be that piety is not definable in one form and that it can be judged in many different ways by many different people. It also seems that these questions are not simply answered, but keep asking the question.
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