Socrates and Christ A Study in the Philosophy of Religion
SINCE the time of Bossuet’s ‘Histoire Universelle,’ as Burnouf points out,1 many have supposed the various forms of religion to be but corruptions of an original revelation. The Platonic doctrine of reminiscence was resuscitated after a fashion, and employed to explain the apparently inexplicable. If the Greek philosopher thought that man’s sublimer moments were simply faint memories of a former ... إقراء المزيد