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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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 94
... gods because it is pious or ( b ) is it pious because it is loved [ by all the gods ] ? ( 10a2-3 ) The complexities implicit in Q and the elenctic refutation of P3 it fuels ( 10a - 11b ) have attracted the attention of many scholars ...
... gods , gods who also retain at least some of the characteristics assigned to them by tradition . Given P3 ' , for example , the gods of Socrates will have attitudes that take into account the activities of mortals . This is to be ...
... gods ' ergon is simply the establishment of good in the universe , the possibility remains open that some of the tasks involved in helping them to attain that end might simply be a matter of following the gods ' orders without knowing ...
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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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