>hurr durr Socrates was a proto-monotheistNo he wasn’t, his last request before his execution was literally to sacrifice a rooster to Asclepius and he believed he was following the will of Apollo based on the Oracle of Delphi proclaiming him to be the wisest man in Athens.The actual reason he was executed was because several of his followers became the thirty tyrants who terrorized Athens (hence why he was charged with “corrupting the youth”). The idea that he “rejected pagan gods” is largely a myth, what he did reject was the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods and the myths surrounding them, not the gods’ existence or worship which he viewed as legitimate.>hurr durr he believed in a single divine principle, which is monotheismNo, this is monism which isn’t even incompatible with polytheism—monotheism explicitly rejects all of other gods while monism allows the existence of multiple gods, viewing them as faces of a single divine principle. This is to my knowledge similar to the Hindu concept of Brahman and the Chinese concept of Dao.Why do people still believe the myth that Socrates was some kind of monotheist? The church fathers who claimed he “glimpsed the pre-incarnate Christ” didn’t know what they were talking about, so why do people still believe their nonsense?
>>18481866I am not reading all that but his views are outlined in Timaeus. He is a Monist-theist of sorts. All beings and gods in this universe created by a primordial demiurge which went on its way to do whatever. Gods exist for him but they are as finite as our universe is. His gods rule over men but they were created at the universe’s beginning and didn’t exist before it.
>>18481866you have the low order thinking of a child and have not even begun to engage with religious thought in any capacity
>monism>allowing for pluralityLook at this retard and laugh.
>>18481995Im not OP but the poem of Parmenides literally has a Goddess explaining the path (odos) to the narrator. Monism allows for deities.
>>18481866The Church Fathers just saw how much their Neo-Platonist pagan rivals loved the Philosophers (Plato and Socrates of course) and wanted to co-opt that into their religion to add to their cause and take away from theirs.>>18481962>Makes a vague reprimand and retires without any elaboration in the tone and vocabulary of a frustrated librarianOh yes, its pseudo-intellectual time.
>>18482020It's*Solecism, solecism.
>>18482020you also have the low order thinking of a child and have not even begun to engage with religious thought in any capacity
