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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... simply the establishment of good in the universe , the possibility remains open that some of the tasks involved in helping them to attain that end might simply be a matter of following the gods ' orders without knowing their reasons ...
... simply a given that the gods are perfectly wise , especially in comparison with human beings ( Ap . 23a5 - b4 ; Mem . 1.1.19 ; cf. HMa . 289b ) . But because of the unity of the virtues ( see , e.g. , Pr . 361b , 329e ff .; Chap . 2.2 ...
... simply a fabrication of borrowings by Xenophon , it is worth noting that apart from the teleological sections of the Memorabilia there are no instances in Xenophon of such complex pieces of philosophy being attributed to Socrates that ...
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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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