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Xenophon's Socratic Works (Hardcover)
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Xenophon's Socratic Works (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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Xenophon's Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of
Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable
source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of
Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon's most ambitious
Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic Recollections), to its
original literary context, enabling readers to experience it as
Xenophon's original audience would have, rather than as a pale
imitation of Platonic dialogue. He shows that the Memorabilia,
together with Xenophon's Apology, provides us with our best
evidence for the trial of Socrates, and a comprehensive and
convincing refutation of the historical charges against Socrates.
Johnson's account of Socrates' moral psychology shows how
Xenophon's emphasis on control of the passions can be reconciled
with the intellectualism normally attributed to Socrates. Chapters
on Xenophon's Symposium and Oeconomicus (Estate Manager) reveal how
Xenophon used all the literary tools of Socratic dialogue to defend
Socratic sexual morality (Symposium) and debate the merits and
limits of conventional elite values (Oeconomicus). Throughout the
book, Johnson argues that Xenophon's portrait of Socrates is rich
and coherent, and largely compatible with the better-known portrait
of Socrates in Plato. Xenophon aimed not to provide a rival
portrait of Socrates, Johnson shows, but to supplement and clarify
what others had said about Socrates. Xenophon's Socratic Works,
thus, provides readers with a far firmer basis for reconstruction
of the trial of Socrates, a key moment in the history of Athenian
democracy, and for our understanding of Socrates' seminal impact on
Greek philosophy. This volume introduces Xenophon's Socratic works
to a wide range of readers, from undergraduate students
encountering Socrates or ancient philosophy for the first time to
scholars with interests in Socrates or ancient philosophy more
broadly. It is also an important resource for readers interested in
Socratic dialogue as a literary form, the trial of Socrates, Greek
sexual morality (the central topic of Xenophon's Symposium), or
Greek social history (for which the Oeconomicus is a key text).
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