Essence of Piety

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The Essential property and essence of piety is given in the Definition proposed in the dialogue Euthyphro which is god loves X because X is pious, but it is not secure, there are some failures as well due to the definition could also potentially mean X is pious because god loves X. And in my personal view morality is both dependent and independent of god and his/her commands. Firstly, the essence of piety is shown in the third definition of Euthyphro. The essence of Piety is shown in the Third Definition as it mentions ‘Piety=what is loved by all the gods’ and Impiety=what is hated all the gods’. In this definition it is clear that Piety is right, which is the essence of it, as humans believe what god loves are right and what gods hate are wrong. Essential property is the attribute or set of attributes that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. Piety is defined as having total belief and trust on a subject, in the case of god it would be having totally belief and trust in his words, having fear and respect at the same time towards god. Further applying piety as a predicate on X giving the definition ‘For any X, X is pious=X is loved by all the gods.’ And ‘for any X, X is impious= X is hated by all the gods’, for a instance X is a human, then it proves that being pious causes X the human to be loved by god, which is the essence of it, and this is what humans should be like, god is a supernatural existence, meaning it is an existence which is far beyond humans, humans should only be trusting and believing god and not think of anything else. Of course for many religions there are different gods, but this is what all the gods want in Euthyphro definition. Secondly, the third definition of piety has failed to give the essence of piety to some extent. In the definition ‘X is pious=X is
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