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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... prosecute his own father ( cf. Nu . 1303-1453 ) , " takes Socrates ' side in the accusations against him ( including ... prosecution against Euthyphro on a γραφή κακώσεως γονέων ( a suit for ill - usage of parents ; see Ar . Constitution ...
... prosecute his father for a crime against another man out of a con- cern for miasma and on the assumption that his prosecution is pious ( or that a failure to prosecute would risk impiety ) , neither should Socrates be charged with ...
... prosecution is incoherent ought to be sufficient to convince any clearheaded juror that the entire set of charges is unlikely . Moreover , in this case Meletus - as the initiator of the yoaon - is also a prosecution " witness , " and so ...
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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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