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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... sacrifice and prayer to be a pious service , we have a clear instance of sacrifice at Phaedo 118a ( a request that a cock be offered to Asclepius ; note also the libation and hymn at Sym . 176a ; cf. 220d ) , while Phaedo 61b shows us a ...
... sacrifice ; and the follow- ing section ( 364e - 366b ; cf. 419a ) indicates that there are some who might believe those poets who hold that the gods can even be " swerved " from punishing wrongdoers by getting a " cut of the take ...
... sacrifice . Socrates is thus not - contra Vlastos - a wholesale threat to the actual practice of cult , but to the inner , narrow self - aggrandizing motivations of many of its practitioners : those who give priority to material sacrifice ...
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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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