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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... Oracle , we may distinguish three periods in the philosophical life of Socrates : ( 1 ) his intellectual activity prior to Chaerephon's visit , ( 2 ) his subsequent investigation of the meaning of the oracular pronouncement , and ( 3 ) ...
... Oracle is due to the free , unconstrained play of reason : If Socrates were free to simply make up the meaning he settles on , there would be no reason for him to have been baffled by the Oracle for a long time ( per Ap . 21b ) .121 So ...
... Oracle was saying , " and given that " it seemed to be necessary to regard the business of the god as most important " ( 22c ) . How important is this business ? More important , says Socrates , than even the task of securing 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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