Xenophon's Socratic Education: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics by Dustin Sebell
English | March 19th, 2021 | ISBN: 0812252853 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 1.50 MB
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.