The Religion of SocratesPennsylvania State University Press, 1996 - 353 sivua This study argues that to understand Socrates we must uncover and analyze his religious views, since his philosophical and religious views are part of one seamless whole. Mark McPherran provides a close analysis of the relevant Socratic texts, an analysis that yields a comprehensive and original account of Socrates' commitments to religion (e.g., the nature of the gods, the immortality of the soul). McPherran finds that Socrates was not only a rational philosopher of the first rank, but a figure with a profoundly religious nature as well, believing in the existence of gods vastly superior to ourselves in power and wisdom and sharing other traditional religious commitments with his contemporaries. However, Socrates was just as much a sensitive critic and rational reformer of both the religious tradition he inherited and the new cultic incursions he encountered. McPherran contends that Socrates saw his religious commitments as integral to his philosophical mission of moral examination and, in turn, used the rationally derived convictions underlying that mission to reshape the religious conventions of his time. As a result, Socrates made important contributions to the rational reformation of Greek religion, contributions that incited and informed the theology of his brilliant pupil, Plato. |
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... Gorgias for Socrates ' views , and so where they diverge , the testimony of the Apology is to be preferred . On this issue they do diverge , and in such a way that if one takes the end of the Gorgias to represent Socrates ' own ...
... Gorgias's Socrates , on the other hand , introduces the Phaedo - Republic theme of postmortem rewards and punishments as a way of providing additional , extrinsic motivations for virtuous behavior during the course of our earthly ...
... Gorgias . " Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1 ( 1983 ) , 75–121 . ( 3 ) " In Response to Mark McPherran . " Oxford Studies in Ancient Philos- ophy 9 ( 1991 ) , 161–168 . ( 4 ) " On the Relative Date of the Gorgias and the ...
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