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34. The Quest for Character

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Socrates's Charges of Not Believed in the Gods of the City

I wanted to sort of raise a point about the conception of religion for the Greeks. It seems as though, you know, so you pointed the fact that Socrates is having to talk about the God quite a bit. Right. And there's also cases where he talks about by the God by the dog God of the Egyptians. But I think it's not at all obvious that the ancient Athenians thought about religion in the way that we tend to.

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