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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... concerning the gods ' ergon . Versenyi's argument , then , has the effect of portraying Socrates as an ineffective and deceitful teacher . Worse than that , it renders him guilty of impiety , since in the Apology Socrates claims ( under ...
... concerning the gods were to a large extent compatible with the Greek religious traditions of his time . Socrates apparently believes that real gods exist ( Ap . 35c - d , 42a ; Cr . 54e ; Phd . 62b ) and that they may be called by the ...
... concerning the hereafter . It was surely his fervent hope that there was yet a world to come where he might continue to enjoy the " inconceivable happiness " of pursuing his elenctic mission , and with his most talented audience yet ...
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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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