Description: Further DetailsTitle: Xenophon's Socratic EducationCondition: NewSubtitle: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of PoliticsISBN-10: 1512826847EAN: 9781512826845ISBN: 9781512826845Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/24/2024Description: A careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia and a demonstration of a Socratic education It is well known that Socrates was executed by the city of Athens for not believing in the gods and for corrupting the youth. Despite this, it is not widely known what he really thought, or taught the youth to think, about philosophy, the gods, and political affairs. 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. Besides revealing what it was that Socrates really thought—about everything from self-knowledge to happiness, natural theology to natural law, and rhetoric to dialectic—Sebell demonstrates how Socrates taught promising youths, like Xenophon or Plato, only indirectly: by jokingly teaching unpromising youths in their presence. Sebell ultimately shows how Socrates, the founder of moral and political philosophy, sought and found an answer to the all-important question: should we take our bearings in life from human reason, or revealed religion?Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Dustin SebellGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Xenophon's Socratic Education
Title: Xenophon's Socratic Education
Subtitle: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics
ISBN-10: 1512826847
EAN: 9781512826845
ISBN: 9781512826845
Release Date: 09/24/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Xenophon's Socratic Education : Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Political, Civics & Citizenship, Linguistics / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Dustin Sebell
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
