Reason and Religion in Socratic PhilosophyNicholas D. Smith, Paul Woodruff Oxford University Press, 2000 M11 16 - 240 pages This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates. Among the contributors are Thomas C. Brickhouse, Asli Gocer, Richard Kraut, Mark L. McPherran, Robert C. T. Parker, C. D. C. Reeve, Nicholas D. Smith, Gregory Vlastos, Stephen A. White, and Paul B. Woodruff. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
1 Socrates Politics and Religion | 13 |
2 Socrates the Apollonian? | 24 |
And a Religious Crisis? | 40 |
4 Socratic Piety | 55 |
5 Socrates Gods and the Daimonion | 74 |
6 Does Piety Pay? Socrates and Plato on Prayer and Sacrifice | 89 |
7 A New Assessment of Socratic Philosophy of Religion | 115 |
8 Socrates and the Irrational | 130 |
A Hero for the Academy | 151 |
Correspondence among Gregory Vlastos Thomas C Brickhouse Mark L McPherran and Nicholas D Smith | 176 |
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