Xenophon's Socratic Works av David M. Johnson

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<P><EM>Xenophon¿s Socratic Works</EM> demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. </P><P>David M. Johnson restores Xenophon¿s most ambitious Socratic work, the <I>Memorabilia</I> (Socratic Recollections), to its original literary context, enabling readers to experience it as Xenophon¿s original audience would have, rather than as a pale imitation of Platonic dialogue. He shows that the <I>Memorabilia</I>, together with Xenophon¿s <I>Apology</I>, provides us with our best evidence for the trial of Socrates, and a comprehensive and convincing refutation of the historical charges against Socrates. Johnson¿s account of Socrates¿ moral psychology shows how Xenophon¿s emphasis on control of the passions can be reconciled with the intellectualism normally attributed to Socrates. Chapters on Xenophon¿s <I>Symposium</I> and <I>Oeconomicus</I> (Estate Manager) reveal