"What’s fundamentally different about Socratic perspectives versus the perspectives of Christianity is the difficulty of grasping Socrates’ ideal of the rational.
Since everyone comes from different cultural backgrounds, the standard and opinions of what’s right and what’s wrong may differ.
Christianity offers that one perfect standard which can be applied to everyone: God’s.
The problem is that Socrates thinks through the study of philosophy, a person can achieve the perfect balance of the rational control over the spirited and the appetites, whereas in Christianity, people can’t reach God’s perfect standard by their own efforts.
In the christian perspective, there might be more successful attempts to achieve a just life than others, but “all have fallen short of the Glory of God”, and that’s where salvation steps in."
TheAncientGreeks/Romans 3:23
Since everyone comes from different cultural backgrounds, the standard and opinions of what’s right and what’s wrong may differ.
Christianity offers that one perfect standard which can be applied to everyone: God’s.
The problem is that Socrates thinks through the study of philosophy, a person can achieve the perfect balance of the rational control over the spirited and the appetites, whereas in Christianity, people can’t reach God’s perfect standard by their own efforts.
In the christian perspective, there might be more successful attempts to achieve a just life than others, but “all have fallen short of the Glory of God”, and that’s where salvation steps in."
TheAncientGreeks/Romans 3:23
