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Socratic Atheism

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Socratic Atheism rejects the belief in an omnipotent spirit or deity, while also remaining skeptical of secular explanations pertaining to the origin of life. Socratic Atheism proposes that we know nothing of our origins, and are not equipped to understand such a complex subject.

Thoughts on this?
 
Socratic Atheism rejects the belief in an omnipotent spirit or deity, while also remaining skeptical of secular explanations pertaining to the origin of life. Socratic Atheism proposes that we know nothing of our origins, and are not equipped to understand such a complex subject.

Thoughts on this?

Yes, does Socratic atheism have anything to do with Socrates?

Because you know, I mean we have Plato's writings about Socrates and Plato's plays which some think were written by Socrates, at least in part. And of those, only 9 because over 100 were lost.

So that's one thing. Secondly, what made you think Socrates was an atheist? I mean, it's anyone's guess.
 
Socratic Atheism rejects the belief in an omnipotent spirit or deity, while also remaining skeptical of secular explanations pertaining to the origin of life. Socratic Atheism proposes that we know nothing of our origins, and are not equipped to understand such a complex subject.

Thoughts on this?

Too extreme a position for my taste. Based on astronomical facts and findings what we have today we can hint about our origins. I made a thread about this actually:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/science-and-technology/153227-origins-life.html

So my answer is "No" our means of knowing may be limited but are not zero.
 
Socratic Atheism rejects the belief in an omnipotent spirit or deity, while also remaining skeptical of secular explanations pertaining to the origin of life. Socratic Atheism proposes that we know nothing of our origins, and are not equipped to understand such a complex subject.

Thoughts on this?

A fancy title for what in my opinion should be the default way of thinking. We should always be skeptical of explanations for what is unknown and use this skepticism to drive discovery, while in the interim be willing to say that we do not know when we do not know.


As far as not being equipped to understand.. I am not in full agreement with that portion. I used a variation of this in another post yesterday, but what is or is not unknowable is itself an unknown
 
We know more and more about our origins with each passing decade. We clearly are equipped to understand.

The origins of life and the universe are not philosophical questions. They are facts, and can be discovered through evidence from the universe around us.
 
"The unexamined life is the life not worth living."
 
I think it's a bunch of hippie ****, to be honest.
 
The understanding of Evolution has dismissed Socratic Atheism.
 
Yes, does Socratic atheism have anything to do with Socrates?

Because you know, I mean we have Plato's writings about Socrates and Plato's plays which some think were written by Socrates, at least in part. And of those, only 9 because over 100 were lost.

So that's one thing. Secondly, what made you think Socrates was an atheist? I mean, it's anyone's guess.

Maybe because Plato's Apology specifically states it? He was sentenced to death because he openly preached to the young people of Athens that they should not put their faith in gods. He was convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and impiety, i.e. not believing in the gods of the state.
 
Socratic Atheism rejects the belief in an omnipotent spirit or deity, while also remaining skeptical of secular explanations pertaining to the origin of life. Socratic Atheism proposes that we know nothing of our origins, and are not equipped to understand such a complex subject.

Thoughts on this?

I don't think that we are not equipped to understand, but rather that we just don't have the full data set yet.
 
Socratic Atheism rejects the belief in an omnipotent spirit or deity, while also remaining skeptical of secular explanations pertaining to the origin of life. Socratic Atheism proposes that we know nothing of our origins, and are not equipped to understand such a complex subject.

Thoughts on this?

Sounds like agnosticism to me.
 
Sounds like agnosticism to me.

No. Agnostics believe in the existence of a higher power, they just don't know what it is. Socratic atheists reject this belief however, unlike conventional atheists, they also reject secular origin theories.
 
No. Agnostics believe in the existence of a higher power, they just don't know what it is. Socratic atheists reject this belief however, unlike conventional atheists, they also reject secular origin theories.

Agnostics believe such claims are unknowable. They certainly don't believe in a higher power.

agnostic - definition of agnostic by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

ag·nos·tic (ăg-nŏs′tĭk)
n.
1.
a. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
b. One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
2. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
 
Maybe because Plato's Apology specifically states it? He was sentenced to death because he openly preached to the young people of Athens that they should not put their faith in gods. He was convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and impiety, i.e. not believing in the gods of the state.

If you take the singular episode, then that would be the logical conclusion. However, Socrates sculpted sculptures of the gods, he would make comments like " apollo is dragging his chariot across the sky" in reference to the sun, etc.

So he wasn't really an atheist, though he wasn't really a believer. It was complex. As I said ,you can throw you ball in saying that he was an atheist, but the records that we have about him disprove that statement as a certainty.
 
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