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The parents' virtues are to be practiced, regardless of the child's piety, and vice versa. [36] Nevertheless, filial piety mostly identified the child's duty, and in this, it differed from the Roman concept of patria potestas, which defined mostly the father's authoritative power. Whereas in Roman culture, and later in the Judeo-Christian West ...
In other words, to be a good son, one also had to be a good Buddhist. [150] Religious studies scholar Alan Cole has attempted to describe the role of women in Chinese Buddhism using a Freudian framework. Cole states that Chinese Buddhist texts depicted women as examples of virtue and sacrifice, but also as lustful and greedy people. [151]
Pietas erga parentes (" pietas toward one's parents") was one of the most important aspects of demonstrating virtue. Pius as a cognomen originated as way to mark a person as especially "pious" in this sense: announcing one's personal pietas through official nomenclature seems to have been an innovation of the late Republic, when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius claimed it for his efforts to ...
"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society." ELLE Decor. Wade Boggs
Dads active in their children's lives will help them be successful.
“A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life.” — Dr. James Dobson, “Solid Answers” “No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”
Good and pleasure are different sorts of things: pleasure is a sort of activity; but a good is an end, not an activity. "Unimpeded activity" is one way to define pleasure, but it is also, though an activity (energeia), also a sort of end. Temperate people avoid pleasures; but virtuous people (temperance is a virtue) don't shun what is good.
Father's Day is not the only reason to celebrate dads, but it sure acts as a reminder. You could probably list a bunch of reasons why your own dad is the best in the game. Whether that be his ...