Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy

Zusatztext The book is handsomely produced ... and well edited ... In sum, this text is a very useful addition to the Socratic literature, and as a compendium of (sometimes) rival ideas about the daimonion and the charges made against Socrates at his trial, it will more than repay a careful reading. Klappentext This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians!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. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates.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.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas D. Woodruff Smith
• Assisted by: Nicholas D. Smith (Editor), Paul Woodruff (Editor), Woodruff Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2000
• EAN: 9780195133226
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513322-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy: logic, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory