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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Nicholas D., 1949- editor.

Woodruff, Paul, 1943- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates--Religion.

Socrates.

Faith and reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates.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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

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

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773148-1

1-280-47298-7

0-19-535092-8

1-4237-6053-0

OCLC:

476011364