Towards a Transformed Communal Spirituality in the West: Religion, Reason and Civil Society in Plato's Laws

In the Laws Plato rejects the idea that reason alone is capable of providing an adequate foundation for a just social order by motivating ordinary citizens to act rightly. He therefore sees religion (of the right kind) as playing an important complementary role to reason in encouraging and reinforci...

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Main Author: Haig, Albert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: AASR [2008]
In: Australian religion studies review
Year: 2008, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 200-216
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