The Socratic Way of Life, Xenophon’s “Memorabilia” by Pangle, Thomas L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication contents Introduction Part One: Socrates’s Innocence of the Injustices for Which He Was Executed

2. Socrates Was Not Guilty of Corrupting the Young

Critias Alcibiades

Explaining the Teaching of Socrates That Wisdom Is the Title to Rule Transition to Part 2 of the Memorabilia

Part Two: Socrates’s Active Justice, as Benefiter of Others

3. How Socrates Benefited through His Piety and His Self-Mastery

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 Extrafamilial 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)

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