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- Book Title
- Plato's Gods
- Publication Date
- 2013-08-16
- ISBN
- 9780754607014
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0754607011
ISBN-13
9780754607014
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159837869
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
146 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Plato's Gods
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Religion, Folklore & Mythology, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2012-049672
Reviews
"This is an important book for those interested in Pagan Studies because it rehabilitates ancient Greek ideas about the gods as valid and able to exist alongside the allegedly more sophisticated readings that were proposed by philosophers from the sixth century BCE onwards. Plato's Gods , though a short study, requires tenacity and concentration on the part of those not trained in ancient philosophy, but is a worthwhile object of study." - Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
184
Synopsis
This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This book is invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history., Plato moulded the entire tradition of philosophical theology. This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important explanation of the entire Platonic 'system' and Plato's innovations in the field of philosophical theology.Gerd van Riel expounds Plato's views of the gods and the aims of his theology to purify the image of the gods, who must be seen as completely virtuous and with the intention to make men morally better. Plato's establishment of a new theological framework consists largely in an interiorisation of religion as opposed to the civic religion of his time, but his attitude also reveals a determined view on the social and political role of religious practice, and on the interrelation between moral values and religion. Examining Plato's speculative theology - his account of divine beings, of the divine order of the universe, of divine providence, and of the monotheistic tendencies governing his view - Gerd van Riel reveals how this Platonic speculative theology oscillates between cosmic religion and a clear emphasis on the transcendence of the divine.Plato's account of the gods can be seen as a theology of transition, built on a tension between civic and individual religion, between transcendence and immanence, between polytheism and monotheism, and between the gods of tradition and the new, morally excellent but rather impersonal divine beings. Plato's Gods explores the major questions raised by philosophical theology, from its very beginning, and paves the way for understanding later thinkers whose thought can be seen as a particular solution of the same dilemmas that dominated Plato's views. This book will be of interest to all those studying or interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history., This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This theology displays a number of diverging tendencies - viewing the gods as perfect moral actors, as cosmological principles or as celestial bodies whilst remaining true to traditional anthropomorphic representations. Plato's views are shown to be unified by the emphasis on the goodness of the gods in both their cosmological and their moral functions. Van Riel shows that recent interpretations of Plato's theology are thoroughly metaphysical, starting from aristotelian patterns. A new reading of the basic texts leads to the conclusion that in Plato the gods aren't metaphysical principles but souls who transmit the metaphysical order to sensible reality. The metaphysical principles play the role of a fated order to which the gods have to comply. This book will be invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history.
LC Classification Number
B398.R4
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