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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... ergon ( viz . , noesis ) , sublime though it may be ( EN 1178b9-30 ) . Cf. Guthrie ( 2 ) , 231 . 86. This latter task is C.C.W. Taylor's specification of the gods ' ergon , 113 : “ There is one good product they can't produce without ...
... ergon of the gods that " holds the key to the definition he seeks " and is at odds with the claim that Euthyphro's account of piety at 14b1-7 could have been much briefer than it was . My argument in the main text addresses Reeve's ...
... ergon is.104 This profession of ignorance is also what we should expect Socrates to be attempting to elicit from such a person as Euthyphro , whose claim to know things more than human and to be guided thereby in the perfor- mance of ...
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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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