Presocratic Philosophy and the Origins of Religion
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Graeco-Latina Brunensia |
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| web | Digital Library of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Presocratic philosophy; religion; Xenophanes; Democritus; Prodicus; Critias |
| Description | This paper examines the thoughts of Xenophanes, Democritus, Prodicus and the author of the Sisyphus-fragment (traditionally identified as Critias but also more recently as Euripides) in regard to the origin of religious belief while attempting to sketch some connections and similarities between ancient hypotheses and modern theories developed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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