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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... popular belief has it , “ in- vestigators ( opovτioτns ) of these things " also " do not recognize the gods to exist ” ( oỷdè lɛoùg voμíšeɩv ) ( 18c2-3 ) . This connection is then made an explicit part of the informal charges in the ...
... popular opinion associates with the charges of the first accusers . In both instances , it is claimed , ratio- nalistic investigations into nature and argumentation go hand - in - hand with the destruction of the traditional nomoi , the ...
... popular religion , " that is , a growing interest in magic and more primitive forms of worship as pro- vided by the foreign cults that infiltrated Athens at the end of the fifth century.245 This decline and regression apparently ...
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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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