Xenophon's socratic works. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David M. Johnson.
• Authors: Johnson, David M (David Marvin), 1966-
• Contents: List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction From Xenophon or Plato to Xenophon and Plato An intertextual Socrates The life of Xenophon Preview 1. Approaching the Memorabilia Building for variety and range The literary context for the Memorabilia -Courtroom oratory -Ion of Chios -Aesop -Wisdom literature -Developments within the Socratic circle -Isocrates’ Antidosis -Old and new Xenophon’s narrator -Xenophon’s narrators and other narrators -Xenophon’s half-credible narrator -Putting the narrator to work The structure of the Memorabilia -From defense to recollection -Not just repetition, but amplification Outlining the Memorabilia Conclusion 2. Defending Socrates Starting with Xenophon Starting with the Memorabilia Xenophon’s wonder at the charges (Mem. 1.1.1) Impiety (Mem. 1.1.2-20) -Socratic orthopraxy (Mem. 1.1.2) -The daimonion (Mem. 1.1.2-1.1.5) -Divination and human knowledge (Mem. 1.1.6-9) -The public man (Mem. 1.1.10) -Presocratic madness (Mem. 1.1.11-16) -Open evidence about Socrates’ piety (Mem. 1.1.17-19) Corruption (Mem. 1.2) -Character as a defense against corruption (Mem. 1.2.1-8) -Xenophon vs. Plato on corruption -Socrates’ way of life (Mem. 1.2.4-8) -Polycrates and Xenophon’s accuser --Reconstructing Polycrates --From rhetorical accusers to the historical Meletus -Condemning the laws and the lot (Mem. 1.2.9-11) -Alcibiades and Critias (Mem. 1.2.12-48) --Pairing off Alcibiades and Critias --What Alcibiades and Critias wanted and what they got --Socrates’ success and its limits --Teaching skill in speech --Critias, lust, and the art of words (Mem. 1.2.29-39) --Alcibiades, Pericles, and the legitimacy of law (Mem. 1.2.39-47) --Socrates’ true associates (1.2.48) -Mad relatives, and the value of expertise (Mem. 1.2.49-55) -Poetry and the common man (Mem. 1.2.56-61) Concluding the defense (Mem. 1.2.62) 3. Xenophon’s Apology Reading Xenophon’s Apology -From suicide by jury to martyrdom -What Socrates avoids -What Socrates gains Apology and Memorabilia -Memorabilia 4.8 and the Apology -Memorabilia 1.1.-2 and the Apology Xenophon and Plato -Targeting Plato -Religious orthopraxy and the daimonion -The oracle stories and Socrates’ mission -The interrogation of Meletus -The counter-penalty -Five comparative claims 399 4. The moral psychology of Xenophon’s Socrates Enkrateia as a guarantee against wrongdoing (Mem. 1.2.1-8) Hunger is the best sauce (Mem. 1.3.5-8) Enkrateia, the foundation of virtue (Mem. 1.5) The greatest pleasures (Mem. 1.6) Aristippus at the crossroads (Mem. 2.1) The return of Aristippus (Mem. 3.8) Akrasia, sophrosunē, and wisdom (Mem. 3.9) Enkrateia, akrasia, and dialectic (Mem. 4.5) -Enkrateia and freedom -Weakness of will? -Dialectic to the rescue -Aristotle on Socrates and weakness of will -Enkrateia, sophrosunē, and wisdom -Socrates, moderate hedonist? Xenophon’s Socrates on moral psychology: conclusion Xenophon and Plato -Non-rational desires -The role of knowledge 5. Xenophon’s Symposium Character, sexual morality, and irony Outline Socrates vs. Antisthenes Xenophon’s sympotic defense of Socrates -Socrates vs. the Syracusan -Socrates vs. Lycon Eros -Callias and Autolycus -Symposium 8 -From Pausanias to Callias --Socratic erotics in Symposium 8 --Sex and Socrates The irony of Xenophon’s Symposium 6. Xenophon’s Oeconomicus Approaching the Oeconomicus From oikonomia to the Socratic secret to success (Oec. 1-3) Socrates on farming (Oec. 4-5) Introducing Ischomachus (Oec. 6 and 7) Ischomachus and wife (Oeconomicus 7-10) Aspasia and Ischomachus Socrates and Ischomachus (Oeconomicus 11) The overseer (Oeconomicus 12-14) Farming (Oeconomicus 15-20) Divine leadership (Oeconomicus 21) History and the Oeconomicus -Ischomachus and Chrysilla: the historical evidence -The historical evidence and the dialogue Reading as Critobulus Conclusion Xenophon and Plato Reading Xenophon Xenophon at Scillus Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 183.2; Questioning; Philosophy, Ancient; Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life; Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000382273; 9781000382259; 9781003036630
• Related ISBNs: 9780367472047
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