The Socratic way of life : Xenophon's Memorabilia /
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| Author / Creator: | Pangle, Thomas L., author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. ©2018 |
| Description: | xi, 288 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's UCPress copy has original dust-jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11604619 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Socrates's Innocence of the Injustices for Which He Was Executed
- 1. Socrates Was Not Guilty of Impiety or Disbelief as Regards the Gods of Athens
- His Piety Proven by His Worship
- His Belief Proven by His Daimonion
- His Belief Proven by His Teaching on Divination
- His Belief Proven by His Attitude toward Natural Science
- His Belief Proven by His Fidelity to His Sacred Oath
- Concluding the Defense against the Charge of Impiety or Disbelief
- 2. Socrates Was Not Guilty of Corrupting the Young
- Answering a Nameless Accuser's Charge That Socrates Promoted Contempt for the Athenian Regime and Laws
- Starting to Explain His Association with Critias and Alcibiades
- In What Sense Virtue Is Knowledge
- The Big Differences between Critias and Alcibiades
- Critias
- Alcibiades
- Explaining the Teaching of Socrates That Wisdom Is the Title to Rule
- Transition to Pan 2 of the Memorabilia
- Part 2. Socrates's Active Justice, as Benefiter of Others
- 3. How Socrates Benefited through His Piety and His Self-Mastery
- His Teaching on Praying and Sacrificing
- Socrates's Self Mastery vs. Xenophon's Sexual Indulgence
- Socrates's Teaching on Divine Providence
- Socratic Self Mastery vs. Conventional Self-Mastery
- The Virtue That Socratic Self-Mastery Serves
- Socrates's Discouragement of Boasting
- His Teaching of Self-Mastery for the Sake of a Life Dedicated to Politics
- The Setting of the Dialogue
- Self-Discipline as Crucial to Education for Ruling
- Why One Must Seek to Be One of Those Who Rule
- Why the Active Political Life Is the Good Life
- Heracles's Choice
- 4. How Socrates Benefited in Regard to Family and Friends
- Attending to His Son and Wife
- Attempting to Reconcile Feuding Brothers
- Socrates on the Value of Extra familial Friendship
- Promoting Reflection on One's Own Worth as a Friend
- Socrates on the Power and Problem of Friendship among Gentlemen
- How Socrates Helped Friends in Serious Economic Difficulties
- A Socratic Revolution in a Desperate Friend's Household
- Socrates's Advice to a Fellow Economic Misfit
- A Glimpse of Socrates's Own Economic Art
- Extending His Economic Art
- 5. How Socrates Benefited Those Reaching for the Noble/Beautiful (Kalon)
- His Playful Teaching of Noble Generalship
- Interpreting Homer on the Virtue of a Good Leader
- On the Goal Aimed at by a Noble Commander
- Assimilating Military-Political Rule to Household Management ("Oeconomics")
- His Earnest Teaching of Noble Generalship
- On What a Statesman Needs to Know
- Socrates Exhorting to a Career as a Democratic Leader
- How Is the Beautiful/Noble Related to the Good?
- The Virtues as Noble/Beautiful
- Socrates as Arbiter of the Beautiful/Noble in Art
- The Profitable Beauty of Socrates's Soul, Reflected in Comic Allegory
- Exhorting to the Cultivation of Beauty of Physique
- Promoting Everyday Self-Mastery and "Living Decorously"
- 6. Socrates as Beneficial Tutor
- The Seduction of Euthydemus
- The Centrality of Justice, as a Virtue of Speech and Deed
- The Refutation of Euthydemus's Convictions Regarding Justice
- The Refutation of Euthydemus's Convictions Regarding the Good
- The Refutation of Euthydemus's Conception of Democracy
- Making Euthydemus Moderate as Regards Divinity
- Socrates Teaching Justice
- Teaching His Companions Self-Mastery
- Making His Companions More Dialectical
- Teaching His Associates Self-Sufficiency in Deeds
- Xenophon's Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index of Names