THE SOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE: XENOPHON'S MEMORABILIA

Pangle, Thomas L.

ISBN 10: 022675426X / ISBN 13: 9780226754260

Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2020

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The University of Chicago Press, 2020. first printing. 8vo. As new unread trade paperback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE: XENOPHON'S MEMORABILIA
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022675426X
• ISBN 13: 9780226754260
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: As new

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Synopsis

The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon’s masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citizen philosopher Socrates, founder of political philosophy.
In the first part of the book, Pangle analyzes Xenophon’s defense of Socrates against the two charges of injustice upon which he was convicted by democratic Athens: impiety and corruption of the youth. In the second part, Pangle analyzes Xenophon’s account of how Socrates’s life as a whole was just, in the sense of helping through his teaching a wide range of people. Socrates taught by never ceasing to raise, and to progress in answering, the fundamental and enduring civic questions: what is pious and impious, noble and ignoble, just and unjust, genuine statesmanship and genuine citizenship. Inspired by Hegel’s and Nietzsche’s assessments of Xenophon as the true voice of Socrates, The Socratic Way of Life establishes the Memorabilia as the groundwork of all subsequent political philosophy.

About the Author

Thomas L. Pangle is the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of numerous books.