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Xenophon's Socratic education : reason, religion, and the limits of politics
- Title
- Xenophon's Socratic education : reason, religion, and the limits of politics / Dustin Sebell.
- Author
- Sebell, Dustin
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-4995 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 217 pages; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part One. Socratic rhetoric -- Can politics be taught? -- Part Two. Justice and the weakness of writing -- Self-knowledge and the hope for happiness -- Part Three. "Natural theology" -- "Natural law" -- The foundation of wisdom -- The (rhetorical treatment of the) dialectical method -- Human wisdom and divine providence.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-4995
- ISBN
- 9780812252859
- 0812252853
- LCCN
- 2020022844
- OCLC
- 1162214492
- Author
- Sebell, Dustin, author.
- Title
- Xenophon's Socratic education : reason, religion, and the limits of politics / Dustin Sebell.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-4995