| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Socratic Rhetoric -- 2. Can Politics Be Taught? -- 3. Justice and the Weakness of Writing -- 4. Self- Knowledge and the Hope for Happiness -- 5. "Natural Theology" -- 6. "Natural Law" -- 7. The Foundation of Wisdom -- 8. The (Rhetorical Treatment of the) Dialectical Method -- 9. Human Wisdom and Divine Providence |
| Summary |
"This is the sequel to the author's first book, The Socratic Turn. He suggests that perhaps there is no better place to start looking into the possibility that Socrates was teaching others something about morality or politics-or trying and failing to do so-in hopes of learning something from them about religion, than the fourth and final book of Xenophon's Memorabilia. Alfarabi, the Islamic philosopher of the Middle Ages, wrote a book titled The Philosophy of Plato, Its Parts, the Rank of Order of Its Parts, from Beginning to End, and Leo Strauss once said, with that in mind, that Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia presents "the core of Socrates' teaching according to its intrinsic order from its beginning to its end." Sebell writes that, we have, in Book IV, the whole course of a Socratic education, touching on everything relevant to the purpose, in order, from start to finish. And this book is devoted, therefore, to Book IV of his Memorabilia"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Dustin Sebell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. He is author of The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Xenophon. Memorabilia.
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Socrates.
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Socrates |
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Memorabilia (Xenophon) fast |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.
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Philosophy, Ancient
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812297843 |
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0812297849 |
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