Socrates: old and new interpretations
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2013.01.1311Keywords:
The god/the gods, daimonion, politics, value, Plato, democracy, Sophists, traditional religionAbstract
The author, who started to write about Socrates many years ago, dedicates this paper to Prof. Antonio Tovar, of whom he was a disciple, and reflects on how much has been written and thought since then. Socrates did not have a doctrine, he only sought rational support for traditional beliefs in fixed virtues. Starting from this premise, he tried to create a new idea of divinity, which actually reached its peak with Plato. He also used age-old oral and sapiential literature as a source.
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