Impiety
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
impiety · impious · disbelieve in the existence of the gods · unholiness
in the texts
Orations
Wrongdoing against the gods or the sacred, here extended analogically to wrongs against benefactors and the dead.
For the things done toward the departed are not wrongly called acts of impiety and meet with this appellation in the laws, against whomever they may be.
At all events, those who err against their parents, because they were the source of the first and greatest benefaction toward us, reasonably seem to be impious.
but it differs in this, that the things done improperly toward the gods are called acts of impiety, while those toward one another among men are called acts of injustice.
Meditations
The vice of transgressing against the rational, providential order of the Nature of the Whole.
Whoever, then, is not himself indifferent toward pain and pleasure, death and life, fame and obscurity, which the Nature of the Whole uses indifferently, plainly commits an impiety.
Apology
The charge of disbelief in the gods brought against Socrates by Meletus
Do not, therefore, men of Athens, demand of me that I act before you in a way which I consider neither honorable nor right nor pious, especially when impiety is the very thing for which Meletus here has brought me to trial.
Euthyphro
The opposite of holiness, and the charge underlying Meletus's indictment of Socrates.
Socrates.
Is not this, Euthyphro, the reason why I am being prosecuted, because when people tell such stories about the gods I find it hard to accept them?