{"product_id":"xenophons-socratic-education-reason-religion-and-the-limits-of-politics-hardback-9780812252859","title":"Xenophon's Socratic Education; Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics (Hardback) 9780812252859","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eXenophon's Socratic Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDustin Sebell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812252859\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.488 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Sebell has written a penetrating analysis...[and]sets out a clear thesis that he (successfully) seeks to defend: Socrates encouraged promising students to arrive at his considered judgments about morality, politics, and theological matters by jokingly educating other less promising students in their presence. In the process, Sebell also guides the reader to those considered judgments.\" (Review of Politics) \"Dustin Sebell is a master of close reading and reasoning. His novel treatment of Book IV of the \u003ci\u003eMemorabilia\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the Socratic understanding of justice and civic life serves as the basis for both political and natural philosophy.\" (Christopher Nadon, Claremont McKenna College) \"Extraordinary in its precision, rigor, and power of argument, Dustin Sebell's book makes the persuasive case that through the mists of the joking education of the ridiculous Euthydemus we can see the heart of a serious Socratic education.\" (Devin Stauffer, University of Texas at Austin)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's \u003ci\u003eMemorabilia\u003c\/i\u003e and a demonstration of a Socratic education \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eXenophon's Socratic Education\u003c\/i\u003e, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's \u003ci\u003eMemorabilia\u003c\/i\u003e, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part One\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Socratic Rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Can Politics Be Taught?\u003cbr\u003e Part Two\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Justice and the Weakness of Writing\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Self-Knowledge and the Hope for Happiness\u003cbr\u003e Part Three\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"Natural Theology\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"Natural Law\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Foundation of Wisdom\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The (Rhetorical Treatment of the) Dialectical Method\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Human Wisdom and Divine Providence\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559244853528,"sku":"9780812252859","price":48.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/xenophons-socratic-education-reason-religion-and-the-limits-of-politics-hardback-9780812252859","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}