Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 88
GREEK PHILOSOPHY he quotes <mark>Socrates</mark> himself to bring this point home. Of his perfectly rational attitude, <mark>Socrates</mark> is known to have said: 'Not now for the first time, but always, I am the sort of man who is persuaded by nothing in me except the proposition which appears to me to be the best when I reason (LoyɩÇoµέµ) about it. 10. Despite his emphasis on reason he appears to Vlastos to be a superstitious man when it comes to his personal experience. Thus he writes: ‘And yet he is also committed to obeying commands reaching him through supernatural channels. '10. To support his contention, Vlastos quotes <mark>Socrates</mark> during his trial: 'To do this has been commanded me, as I maintain, by the god through divinations and through dreams and every other means through which divine apportionment has ever commanded anyone to do anything. '10. Having postulated this, Vlastos has written a long discourse on absolving <mark>Socrates</mark> of what he himself admits of his spiritual experience. Through an involved logic, he finally assumes that <mark>Socrates</mark> did not genuinely believe in what appears to be his personal confession. Yet despite all his scholarly effort, Vlastos fails to achieve this purpose. . Read again for instance the above quoted passage by. Vlastos beginning with the words 'To do this has been commanded me, . . . 10 and note that the word God used by <mark>Socrates</mark> is in the singular, yet the author prefers to write it with a small ‘g'. . This statement of <mark>Socrates</mark>, concerning his personal experience of Divine dreams, revelations and specific 88