Is Socrates a Reformed Theologian?

Socrates' lack of regard for death does smack of a kind of religious conviction, you know, that there's something to which he is answerable beyond the here and now. I think what happens, my own kind of speculation about that would be that for Socrates, like it's a precursor to what eventually would become like a classical Christian view. But for Socrates, it's almost like the good is like my God, right? Like I like the form of the good, right? And so I think you could maybe read Socrates that way.

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