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Xenophon's Socratic Education - Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics (Hardcover)
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Xenophon's Socratic Education - Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics (Hardcover)
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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?
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