TY - BOOK ID - 9343838 TI - Philosophy and salvation in Greek religion PY - 2012 VL - Bd. 60 SN - 09392580 SN - 3110276380 3110276356 1299721230 3110552140 9783110276350 9783110276381 PB - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy, Ancient. KW - Greece KW - Religion. KW - Ancient philosophy KW - Greek philosophy KW - Philosophy, Greek KW - Philosophy, Roman KW - Roman philosophy KW - Philosophie antique. KW - 292.1 KW - 292.1 Godsdiensten van de Grieken KW - Godsdiensten van de Grieken KW - Greek Religion. KW - Neoplatonism. KW - Orphism. KW - Plato. KW - Pre-Socratics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9343838 AB - Ever since Vlastos' "Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought," scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention to its theological, cosmological and soteriological dimensions remains onesided. Yet, philosophers continue to discuss thinkers such as Parmenides and Plato without knowledge of their debt to the archaic religious traditions. Perhaps our own religious prejudices allow us to see only a "polis religion" in Greek religion, while our modern philosophical openness and emphasis on reason induce us to rehabilitate ancient philosophy by what we consider the highest standard of knowledge: proper argumentation. Yet, it is possible to see ancient philosophy as operating according to a different system of meaning, a different "logic." Such a different sense of logic operates in myth and other narratives, where the argument is neither completely illogical nor rational in the positivist sense. The articles in this volume undertake a critical engagement with this unspoken legacy of Greek religion. The aim of the volume as a whole is to show how, beyond the formalities and fallacies of arguments, something more profound is at stake in ancient philosophy: the salvation of the philosopher-initiate. ER -