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4 de oct. de 2019 · This chapter examines Plato’s views on theology. Plato inherited Socrates’s conviction that a proper understanding of the divine nature is essential to human virtue and happiness. Hence, god’s essential goodness is the thesis that runs most prominently through all his theological arguments.
Did Plato influence our view of God? Many Christians sitting in the pew believe that their view of God, indeed orthodoxy's view, is derived solely from the Bible. They would never suspect, however, that the roots of their belief in a triune God comes, not from Scripture, but from Greek philosophy.
20 de mar. de 2004 · Plato (429?–347 B.C.E.) is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.
25 de oct. de 2005 · First published Tue Oct 25, 2005; substantive revision Fri May 13, 2022. In the Timaeus Plato presents an elaborately wrought account of the formation of the universe and an explanation of its impressive order and beauty. The universe, he proposes, is the product of rational, purposive, and beneficent agency.
- Donald Zeyl, Barbara Sattler
- 2005
Students are often tempted to contrast Plato’s God with the allegedly omnipotent God of Western monotheism. But the latter view of God is actually a medieval theological creation—a hybrid of Greek and Biblical thinking.
In Plato’s account of the trial of Socrates, Socrates is accused of introducing false gods and, by implication, impiety regarding the established religious order.
Against this cosmological interpretation of Plato’s gods – the dominant view before the present, Aristotelianizing approach gained momentum in the 1960s – Van Riel rightly maintains that we should think of the planets as possible manifestations of the traditional gods, not as replacements for them.
