Friday, July 15, 2011
How did socrates feel about greek mythology?
There's some debate about what Sokrates' actual opinions were on religion and mythology, since most of the information we have on what he said and opined comes from his students, the foremost of whom would be Platon (Plato), whom lots of modern scholars tend to take with a pinch of salt when he's talking about Sokrates. According to wikipedia.org Sokrates often referred "to God in the singular as opposed to the plural and actively rejected the Greek pantheon of Gods and Goddesses unless citing them as examples of their falseness." I remember reading in some book long ago that, if Sokrates did believe in the deities of his people, he did not believe that they did all the kinky and sordid things the myths attribute to them. Zeus seems to have gained some prominence in this argument, I suppose since Zeus was the most notorious for his promiscuous and violent behaviour in obtaining the object(s) of his desire(s). Sokrates refused to believe that a just deity (as Zeus called himself) would act as unjustly as [the same] Zeus did, more often than not, in the myths.
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