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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... extrarational submit itself to the court of secular rationality . Socrates , then , conceives of both the elenchos and divination as having provided him with moral guidance . And as he sees it , we are all so doubly- blessed with the ...
... extrarational ? In particular , was Socrates ' use of reason " completely unfettered " by the extrarational - did he put the whole rabbit in the hat , and is it therefore a wholly elenctic rabbit ? —or is oracular divination so reliable ...
... extrarational . It is apparent to Socrates , for instance , that the daimonion has stopped him from philosophizing in certain ways - e.g . , in the way concomitant to a life of politics ( 31c - e ) —and therefore it should be perfectly ...
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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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