Responses to Divine Communication: Oedipus and Socrates

Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus shows that humans' problems do not appear when they listen to the gods, but when they listen to themselves imagining that they follow the gods. Instead of placing themselves in the service of the god, as Socrates does in Plato's Apology, they only think th...

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Main Author: Gabor, Octavian ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2020
In: Philosophy & theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 63-79
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sophocles, Oedipus tyrannus / Plato 427 BC-347 BC, Apologia / Gods / Communication
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
TB Antiquity
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