Religion and Philosophy Flashcards

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Example of presocratic philosopher and views

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Xenophanes- one ‘cosmic’ god. ‘We all came from earth and water.’ Heavenly phenomenon explained naturally ie. rainbows aren’t from the goddess Iris but are clouds. Henotheistic view. Gods weren’t anthropomorphic

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Socrates’ divine connection

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‘daimonion’

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Muir religiosity of the people in times of crisis

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‘in extreme cases they even toyed with outright atheism’

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Muir sophists

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none were atheists

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Nails Socrates’ gods

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‘Socrates leaves no doubt that the quarreling gods Athenians accept are not the ones he believes in’

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Nails Socrates corrupting the young

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‘the Athenians would not mind his spiritual monitor or his opinions if he were not imitated by the young’

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Nails why Socrates was charged (scholar that agrees)

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‘political animosity lay behind the impiety charges against Socrates’. Waterfield

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When were the Presocratics active?

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before Socrates, who was born in 469 BC

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When was Xenophanes active?

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6th century BC

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Tor Xenophanes

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‘Xenophanes rejects traditional concepts of divine disclosure as theologically faulty and supplants them with his own, alternative notion of disclosure.’

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Evidence of Socrates’ piety

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follows is daimonion, a divine voice/sign that prevented him from doing certain things. During his court case, he swears an oath to the gods

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Herrmann

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‘Socrates’ questioning of common concepts…forms part of a wider trend which had called traditional beliefs and traditional belief into question’

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Socrates’ circle

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surrounded himself with individuals who turned against democracy, such as Critias, one of the thirty tyrants, and Alcibiades

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Others questioning religion

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Writers of comedy such as Aristophanes and historians such as Thucydides were critical of the traditional view of religion and mocked them

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Socrates’ history

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been around some thirty years before he was charged in 399

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