Maxim

Honour your father and your mother.

The people who raised us gave us our first world, however imperfectly. Many traditions ask us to meet them with care and respect, not just duty, and to let that gratitude show in how we treat them as they grow older.

Related expressions

• “The filial piety of now-a-days means the support of one's parents. But dogs and horses likewise are able to do something in the way of support;-- without reverence, what is there to distinguish the one support given from the other?”

  — Confucius, Analects 2.7 (Wei Zheng), tr. James Legge
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  ConfucianismAncient (before 200 BCE)relation: expressesVerifiedsourceTranslation: public-domain translation (Legge)

• “Thy Lord hath ordained that ye worship none but him; and, kindness to your parents, whether one or both of them attain to old age with thee: and say not to them, "Fie!" neither reproach them; but speak to them both with respectful speech;”

  — The Qur'an, Qur'an 17:23 (Sura Al-Isra, 'The Night Journey'), tr. J. M. Rodwell
  IslamMedieval (600 – 1500)relation: expressesVerifiedsourceTranslation: public-domain translation (J. M. Rodwell)

Score

Moral Rank 57.5 · Evidence E = 12.88

E = ln(1+2.75) + √2.75 + 3·2.30 + 1.5·2 = 12.88

How this is scored

Further reading

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_piety