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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451130903321

Titolo

Reason and religion in Socratic philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nicholas D. Smith, Paul B. Woodruff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-280-47298-7

0-19-535092-8

1-4237-6053-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithN. D (Nicholas D.)

WoodruffPaul <1943->

Disciplina

183/.2

Soggetti

Religion - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Socrates, Politics, and Religion; 2. Socrates the Apollonian?; 3. The Trial of Socrates: And a Religious Crisis?; 4. Socratic Piety; 5. Socrates' Gods and the Daimonion; 6. Does Piety Pay? Socrates and Plato on Prayer and Sacrifice; 7. A New Assessment of Socratic Philosophy of Religion; 8. Socrates and the Irrational; 9. Socrates at Colonus: A Hero for the Academy; 10. Socrates and His Daimonion: Correspondence among Gregory Vlastos, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Mark L. McPherran, and Nicholas D. Smith; Works Cited

Index of Ancient Authors and SourcesGeneral Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates.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, and Paul B. Woodruff.