Philosophy and religion in Plato's Dialogues /

Philosophy and religion in Plato's Dialogues /

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Author / Creator:	Nightingale, Andrea Wilson, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Plato -- Religion. Plato. -- Dialogues. Plato. Dialogues (Plato) Philosophy and religion -- Greece -- History. Philosophy and religion. Religion. Greece. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12680609

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ISBN:	1108837301 9781108837309 9781108945790 9781108938815
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-291) and index.
Summary:	"In ancient Greece, philosophers developed new and dazzling ideas about divinity, drawing on the deep well of poetry, myth, and religious practices even as they set out to construct new theological ideas. Andrea Nightingale argues that Plato shared in this culture and appropriates specific Greek religious discourses and practices to present his metaphysical philosophy. In particular, he uses the Greek conception of divine epiphany - a god appearing to humans - to claim that the Forms manifest their divinity epiphanically to the philosopher, with the result that the human soul becomes divine by contemplating these Forms and the cosmos. Nightingale also offers a detailed discussion of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Orphic Mysteries and shows how these mystery religions influenced Plato's thinking. This book offers a robust challenge to the idea that Plato is a secular thinker"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781108945790

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