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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... Justice With this established , the search then begins for the characteristic that differentiates pious justice from the secular remainder . Although Euthy- phro's claim that piety is the part of justice having to do with our service to ...
... justice are coextensive ) , or with the view that piety is but a part of justice , then , that Socrates asks whether " all the just is pious " ( contrast- ing this with the view that " the pious is all just , while the just is not all ...
... justice concerned with the relation of humans to other humans . This division of justice into two kinds of just relations by refer- ence to two different sets of relata is also suggested by Apology 32d3 ( “ no unjust or impious deed ...
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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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