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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... elenchos , which aims at freeing peo- ple of their pretensions to wisdom ( Ap . 23b , e , 28e , 38a ) and their overly zealous care for material things ( 29e - 30b ) , directed at the perfection of the soul ( 29e ) through its ...
... elenchos on others of the above sort , then he would not seem to demand of us that we do so ( cf. Mem . 4.2.25 ff . ) , or that such subjects themselves must undergo it.150 Individuals of the above sort may at least satisfy the demands ...
... elenchos - wielder in question to employ the elenchos effectively ( e.g. , demonstrate the inconsistency of inconsistent moral beliefs ) , and the moral status of the elenchos - wielder . This first factor is relevant since in ...
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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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