What Religion Was Plato?
I find it hard, not really being a scholar of philosophy in any way, to discriminate Plato’s from Socrates’ beliefs/ideas, so I tend to think of the two as one. With that qualification, Plato seems not really to have gone along with the Hellenic Gods, though he is comfortable paying respects to them, and uses them allegorically quite often. He seems happy with the theological concept of ‘higher power’, since it does, I believe, motivate some of his notions of absolutes, in the good of mankind, for instance. However, he does seem quite pragmatic in accepting the divine force in various shapes and forms. Aristotle, Plato’s pupil, is perhaps marginally easier to fathom, with his ideas of ‘unmoved mover’, the originating force.
