Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.16.1, pp. 45-78
 
The Philosophical Critique of Religion under the Early Empire
by Harold W. Attridge, Dallas, Texas

Contents

Introduction 45
I. Theoretical Agnosticism 46
II. Theoretical Deism 51
III. Radical Cynicism 56
IV. Radical Criticism in non-philosophical Sources 60
V. The Critique of 'Superstition' by Religious Philosophy 63
VI. Religious Cynicism 64
VII. Stoic Piety 66
VIII. Neo-Pythagorean Piety 69
IX. Phio's Apologetic Criticism 72
X. Plutarch and the Mean of Piety 73
Select Bibliography 77
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