Abstract

The topic of religion in the philosophical thought in general, and the Greek thought in particular, is one of the important topics at the level of human thinking in various historical eras, and the topic of religion in Plato’s philosophy has received considerable the attention of researchers, thinkers and philosophers because of its important place in Plato's philosophy. Some of Plato's views and philosophical theories were of a religious nature, as the religious tendency appeared overtly in some of his writings. Therefore, the present study focused on five issues, namely: first, his life and the idea of his religion; second, God according to Plato (the supreme religious image); third, providence (manifestations of the religious in the material world); fourth, the proverbial theory (the image of the religious paradoxes); and fifth, the soul (the engine of religious behavior). Regarding Plato’s life, he was born in (429 BC) on the western island of Aegina from the Greek Attic coast, and lived during the period in which Athens was suffering the ravages of the Peloponnesian wars, and he died in (328 BC). Plato belonged to a noble, aristocratic family in Athens during the reign of Pericles, and his lineage combined glory and dominance on both sides. Plato also narrated in Timaeus that he had an intimate connection with Solon.

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