| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Socrates, politics, and religion / Richard Kraut -- Socrates the Apollonian? / C.D.C. Reeve -- The trial of Socrates: and a religious crisis / Robert Parker -- Socratic piety / Gregory Vlastos -- Socrates' gods and the Daimonion / Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith -- Does piety pay? Socrates and Plato on prayer and sacrifice / Mark L. McPherran -- A new assessment of Socratic philosophy of religion / Asli Gocer -- Socrates and the irrational / Paul Woodruff -- Socrates at Colonus: A hero for the academy / Stephen A. White -- 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 sources -- General Index |
| 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This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates.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, 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Socrates -- Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Socrates fast |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Religion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Nicholas D., 1949-
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Woodruff, Paul, 1943-
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| ISBN |
1423760530 |
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9781423760535 |
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1280472987 |
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9781280472985 |
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9780195350920 |
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0195350928 |
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