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dianoia-10466	Fahey, Christopher	A Defense of the Gods: Interpreting Plato's Myth of Er	2018	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5851	244	65	84 Plato, Republic, 379c. 85 Ibid., 380b-c. 79Issue V F Spring 2018 A Defense of the Gods and had become just and pious, they were rewarded according to the same scale.86 The totally incorrigible receive their just punishment as well, and are “thrown into Tartarus” for eternity.87 Socrates also upholds the second point—that the gods should not be blamed for the bad that befalls humans. At the same time, a “critique of myth” is to be found in Plato because Socrates never subscribes to “undiscriminating, uncritically naive acceptance of what is handed down” through myth.94 Indeed, Pieper says that “defend[ing] the truth about the gods as it is revealed in legitimate sacred tradition [...] defines Plato’s most genuine aim.	cache/dianoia-10466.pdf	txt/dianoia-10466.txt