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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... XII--PLATO-THE IDEA OF GOD I.--PLATO AND THE POPULAR RELIGION (i) What God Is Not. (2) What He Is Plato and the Religion Of his Day.--Before Plato could proceed to demonstrate with any force his own conception of what God is, he was obliged, like all reformers, to clear the ground. He had to remove obstructions and show first what God is not; to do this he was compelled, like Xenophanes before him, to attack the popular mythological notions. Let us note here, however, that Plato did not attack the popular religion as a whole. To many of the religions, beliefs, and practices of his time, Plato was far from being opposed. On the contrary, it is evident--not only from the reverence with which in the Republic and the Lairs he speaks of Apollo and the venerable Oracle at Delphi, but from many little touches throughout the dialogues--that he appreciates fully the influence of outward religious observances. The picture in the Lysis (207 A.) of the Hermtea, the boys sacrificing in white to the patron of athletes--that in the Republic (i. 328 C.), of Cephalus, the embodiment of a sunny, peaceful, unselfish old age, sacrificing in his own home to Zeus--the remark in the Laws (ii. 653 C.) that the festivals had been instituted for the express purpose of giving men leisure for self-culture: "the gods pitying our life of labour, have given us periods of rest, and Apollo and the Muses and Dionysus as companions, that they may advance our nurture and education"--and the keen insight shown in the direction given in the same dialogue (Laws, v. 738 B.) that no change is to be made in religion, and the festivals are to be continued in order that men may learn to know each other, in other words, in order to promote peace and goodwill--all this (and much more that migh...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150167201
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 458
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150167203
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 812 gr


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