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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... endorsed . Returning to the text , it remains to discuss Euthyphro's " wrong - turn- ing , ” which introduces the conception of piety as a kind of knowledge or craft of proper giving to ( which is again a kind of service ; vлηρɛσía ) ...
... endorsed by Socrates which holds that for mortals to expect the immortality enjoyed by the gods is sheer impious presumption ( cf. Ap . 23a ) .35 The next objection is more telling : Socrates has appeared to some to be assuming without ...
... endorsed the soul's immortality ought to be abandoned and should give way to suspension of judgment on the matter . But if bets must be placed , then I suggest that the primacy of the Apology , the rhetorical implications of its ...
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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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