Holiness
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
holiness · piety · the holy
in the texts
Against Meidias
A divine and sacred power invoked as injured by Meidias' acts.
lastly by all these acts he wronged the god to whose service I had been dedicated and that divine and awful power beyond our ken—the power of Holiness.
Euthyphro
The central concept under examination: what makes an act or person holy, sought across several rejected definitions.
Euthyphro.
Euthyphro.
Euthyphro.
Laches
A further quality Socrates names when asking whether someone possessing comprehensive knowledge of good and evil could still be lacking in it.
Do you suppose that such a man could be lacking in temperance, or justice, and holiness, when he alone has the gift of taking due precaution, in his dealings with gods and men, as regards what is to be dreaded and what is not, and of procuring good things, owing to his knowledge of the right behaviour towards them?