Xenophon's Socratic Education: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics Sebell Dustin
Xenophon's Socratic Education: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics Sebell Dustin It is well known that Socrates was executed by the city of Athens for not believing in the gods and for…
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Xenophon's Socratic Education: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics Sebell Dustin
It is well known that Socrates was executed by the city of Athens for not believing in the gods and for corrupting the youth. Of the few authors we rely on for firsthand knowledge of Socrates--Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle--only Xenophon, the least read of the four, lays out the whole Socratic education in systematic order.In Xenophon's Socratic Education, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, Dustin Sebell shows how Socrates ascended, with his students in tow, from opinions about morality or politics and religion to knowledge of such things. Despite this, it is not widely known what he really thought, or taught the youth to think, about philosophy, the gods, and political affairs.
Besides revealing what it was that Socrates really thought--about everything from self-knowledge to happiness, natural theology to natural law,
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