Single Idea 21356

[catalogued under 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth]

Full Idea

While both are dear, piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

Gist of Idea

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends

Source

Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1096a16)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.939


A Reaction

Interesting that 'piety' requires it. Piety doesn't figure much in Aristotle. He has just been talking about Platonic Forms. It would be an odd person who sacrificed a friendship for a trivial truth.