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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... phusiologoi - Sophists do not recognize gods simplici- ter . This leaves the statement of the informal charge " not believing in gods " ambiguous between " not believing in any gods whatsoever " ( on which count public opinion would be ...
... phusiologoi , one that included reading and critically examining their views ( e.g. , those of Anaxagoras [ Phd . 97c ] ) . 63 The bulk of the evidence for Socrates ' denial that he " shares in " or discourses on the theories of the ...
... phusiologoi , the straightforward sense of the passages is that unlike typical nature - scientists whose investigations were grounded in a commitment to certain mechanistic assumptions , Soc- rates conducted his exploration without any ...
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Socrates and His Accusers | 83 |
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