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Trusting the Divine Voice: Socrates and His Daimonion by Anna Lännström is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Trusting the Divine Voice: Socrates and His Daimonion about?
Among the many riddles surrounding Socrates, some of the most recalcitrant concern religion: his views about piety, sacrifice, divination, and about the gods of his city. Perhaps most troubling of all is his notorious daimonion, which frequently stopped him when he was about to do something, for instance, preventing his taking part in public affairs. 2 Socrates' immediate obedience to his divine sign fits very poorly with our image of him as a man deeply committed to reason and to the critical examination of belief. Instead of following reason, it seems he sometimes acted solely upon the dubious authority of a voice that he heard. We can solve the problem by arguing that he did not really obey the sign but just was being ironic or that the role of the daimonion was so minimal that Socrates' obedience to it did not threaten his rationality. 3 Several scholars, most prominently Mark McPherran, Thomas Brickhouse, and Nicholas Smith, have argued that, in that case, we solve the problem at the cost of underestimating the role of the daimonion in Socrates'
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- Author
- Anna Lännström
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)