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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... seems to fly in the face of his philosophical grilling , and repudiation , of the reli- giously based claims of others . In the Euthyphro , for example , Socrates is not at all content with Euthyphro's explanation that he is acting in ...
... seems eminently plausible to suppose that Socrates is himself persuaded by his own examples to believe that if an ... seems the preferable translation because it seems that the prosecution intends for the charge of innovation to cover ...
... seems to hear ( dox @ дxoúεiv [ 54d2–3 ] ) that the Laws receive deceased lawbreakers badly , but what his own entire view on the matter is seems difficult to ascertain . " 64 63 62 Socrates ' positive endorsement of the eschatological ...
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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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