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The Figure of Socrates in the Early Patristic Culture Wars
University College Stockholm, Stockholm School of Theology, Department of Eastern Christian Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7927-6995
2021 (English)In: Studia patristica, ISSN 0585-542X, no 20, p. 165-171Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The figure of Socrates was central to the intellectual culture of Antiquity, and his trial turned to the key reference point in the ancient literature. Church Fathers also referred to him on different occasions. The article argues that different attitudes they expressed to Socrates, his trial and death, his daemonium, and the sources of inspiration for his philosophy, became criteria in the culture wars that often broke out in the patristic era. These wars in some sense were similar to ours, with a more closed attitude to the ‘external’ culture and paideia contesting the more open one. The attitude to Socrates became a litmus test that revealed various ideological preferences in the patristic ‘culture wars’: ‘liberal’, ‘moderate’, and ‘conservative’ ones.

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Leuven, 2021. no 20, p. 165-171
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-1514OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ths-1514DiVA, id: diva2:1629070
Available from: 2022-01-17 Created: 2022-01-17 Last updated: 2025-01-01Bibliographically approved

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