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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... claim that his imagined court discussion would “ turn out to be much more about him [ Meletus ] than about me " ( 5c2--3 ) , a typically Socratic claim , and just as Euthyphro claims to know with precision an uncommon amount about ...
... claim would probably be acceptable to Socrates . In order to preclude the attribution to Socrates of even so mini- mally a positive claim as this about piety , Versenyi presents an argument that when generalized , would falsify ...
... claim of the Delphic Oracle that " no one is wiser " than he ( Ap . 20e3–23c1 , 33c4–7 ) . He is so sure that he understands what pious service it is that the god wishes him to perform , that not even a sure threat of death could ...
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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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