HOWLAND, Jacob
Xenophon`s philosophic odyssey : on the anabasis and Plato`s republic - 2000
Xenophon`s Anabasis, a military adventure interwoven with a story of philosophical self-discovery, is a companion piece to Plato`s Republic. The Anabasis takes up in deed the two great political problems treated in speech in the Republic, namely, how a just community can come in to being and how philosophy and potilical power may be brought to coincide. In addressing the first of these problems, Xenophon makes explicit a lesson about the limits of politics that is implicit in the Republi. He speaks to the second probem by clarifying the essential role of philosophical eros in his emergence, at the moment of crisis, as the founder and leader of a well-ordered community. Xenophon`s self-presentation in the Anabasis, which makes clear his dept to Socrates, illuminates the nature of philosophical courage as well as the saving integrity of the philosophical soul
Xenophon`s philosophic odyssey : on the anabasis and Plato`s republic - 2000
Xenophon`s Anabasis, a military adventure interwoven with a story of philosophical self-discovery, is a companion piece to Plato`s Republic. The Anabasis takes up in deed the two great political problems treated in speech in the Republic, namely, how a just community can come in to being and how philosophy and potilical power may be brought to coincide. In addressing the first of these problems, Xenophon makes explicit a lesson about the limits of politics that is implicit in the Republi. He speaks to the second probem by clarifying the essential role of philosophical eros in his emergence, at the moment of crisis, as the founder and leader of a well-ordered community. Xenophon`s self-presentation in the Anabasis, which makes clear his dept to Socrates, illuminates the nature of philosophical courage as well as the saving integrity of the philosophical soul
