Author: Roy Kenneth HackPublisher: Princeton, Princeton U.P
ISBN:
Category : Gods
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Annotation The Description for this book, God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates, will be forthcoming.
God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates
Author: Roy Kenneth HackPublisher: Princeton, Princeton U.P
ISBN:
Category : Gods
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Annotation The Description for this book, God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates, will be forthcoming.
God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates
Author: Roy Kenneth HackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gods
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates
Author: Roy K. HackGreek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy
Author: Jon MikalsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019161467X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Jon D. Mikalson examines how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components and concepts of the religion of the people of their time - practices such as sacrifice, prayer, dedications, and divination. The chief concepts involved are those of piety and impiety, and after a thorough analysis of the philosophical texts Mikalson offers a refined definition of Greek piety, dividing it into its two constituent elements of `proper respect' for the gods and `religious correctness'. He concludes with a demonstration of the benevolence of the gods in the philosophical tradition, linking it to the expectation of that benevolence evinced by popular religion.
Religion of Socrates
Author: Mark L. McPherranPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271040325
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
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 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.
Battling the Gods
Author: Tim WhitmarshPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307958337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Homer’s epic poems of human striving, journeying, and passion were ancient Greece’s only “sacred texts,” but no ancient Greek thought twice about questioning or mocking his stories of the gods. Priests were functionaries rather than sources of moral or cosmological wisdom. The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to the atheos, or “godless.” Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata. Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief. Everything changed, however, in the millennium between the appearance of the Homeric poems and Christianity’s establishment as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century AD. As successive Greco-Roman empires grew in size and complexity, and power was increasingly concentrated in central capitals, states sought to impose collective religious adherence, first to cults devoted to individual rulers, and ultimately to monotheism. In this new world, there was no room for outright disbelief: the label “atheist” was used now to demonize anyone who merely disagreed with the orthodoxy—and so it would remain for centuries. As the twenty-first century shapes up into a time of mass information, but also, paradoxically, of collective amnesia concerning the tangled histories of religions, Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism’s first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.
God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates
Author: Roy Kenneth HackPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400877601
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A scholarly account of the views on the nature of God held by Greek philosophers up to the time of Socrates. Originally published in 1937. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the time of Socrates
Author: Eduard ZellerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368860372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Socrates
Author: Richard BowenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 142228977X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates' ideas on how people should discuss, think about, and solve complicated problems have influenced centuries of thinkers in politics, law, and philosophy. The modern world would be very different without Socrates' method of asking questions about a problem to find the solution. Socrates' thinking has shaped modern science, government, and education, as well as many other parts of everyday life. Learn the story of one of the most important philosophical thinkers of all time in Socrates: Greek Philosopher.
Four Dialogues
Author: PlatoPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434458164
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Included in this volume are "Euthyphro," "Apology," "Crito," and the Death Scene from "Phaedo." Translated by F.J. Church. Revisions and Introduction by Robert D. Cumming.