Religious Platonism: The Influence of Religion on Plato and the Influence of Plato on Religion

by James K. Feibleman

Book Overview

In Plato's Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument. His influence on the philosophy of religion is wide ranging and this book examines both that and the influence of religion on Plato.

Central to Plato's thought is the theory of forms, which holds that there exists a realm of forms, perfect ideals of which things in this world are but imperfect copies. In this book, originally published in 1959, Feibleman finds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113898504X
• ISBN13: 9781138985049
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"