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Plato's Gods (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Plato's Gods (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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