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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... note ( n . 6 ) that Vlastos , 163–164 , is incorrect to think that the gods ' goodness does not simply follow from their perfect wisdom , since for Socrates no one can know the good and fail to do it ( e.g. , Cr . 49c ; Pr . 352b - d ...
... Note also the epigraph for this book . 147. Note also , however , how Plato has Meno warn Socrates about the dangers of driving others into the same state of perplexity that he has been driven into by the elenchos : “ You are wise not ...
... Note . " Antichthon 10 ( 1976 ) , 22–24 . Hedrick , C. " The Temple and Cult of Apollo Patroos in Athens . " American Jour- nal of Archaeology 92 ( 1988 ) , 185-210 . Heidel , W. A. " On Plato's Euthyphro . " Transactions of the ...
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Socratic Piety in the Euthyphro | 29 |
Socrates and His Accusers | 83 |
Socratic Reason and Socratic Revelation | 175 |
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