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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... Phdr . 229e ) . " Lacking such knowledge ( e.g. , of future events ) we should pray for no specific thing , since we can- not reliably know if the fulfillment of our prayer would be a good for us or not ( Mem . 1.3.2 ) . This is so ...
... Phdr . 242b9 ; R. 496c4 ; Mem . 1.1.3–5 . 24. Ap . 31d1–3 ; cf. Phdr . 242c2 and Xen . Apol . 12 . 25. See Ap . 40b1 together with 26b2-28a1 . See also Ap . 31c8 - d4 , 40a4-6 , 40c3-4 , 28 before Socrates ( R. 496c3–5 ) and has been ...
... Phdr . 249b6 - d3 ) .148 And not just a momentary one either : as a corollary of this epistemic hope , Plato adds the stunning doc- trine of recollection and its anti - Apollonian postulation of prenatal exis- tence and immortality ( M ...
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