Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Assistant Professor of Humanities Research Institute

Abstract

The most important of the Socratic writings of Xenophon is his Memorabilia. The Xenophon’s Socratic writings involve that aspect of Socratic political philosophy in which he adverted to the trans-political way of life and insisted on the political education from its negative point of view. Xenophon, attempting to take human nature rather than mere nature as a main philosophical subject, affirms that political philosophy in its Socratic sense is ‘first philosophy’. The philosopher’s subject as an educator is human nature and morality and good and evil things, and human being as the only logos-based being is the only being who is opened to the whole. So the political philosopher as an educator, beginning with political way of life in its alive and immediate form, attempts to confront the pupil on the one hand with the limitations of that way of life and on the other with the limitations of reason for applying totally the rational rules in the political life. In this paper, putting forward the educational end of Xenophon’s Socratic writings, particularly his Memorabilia, we pave the way for understanding the philosophical thought of Xenophon as a Socratic political philosopher.

Keywords

اشتراوس، لئو (1396)، گفتار سقراطی کسنوفون، ترجمه یاشار جیرانی، انتشارات آگه.
اشتراوس، لئو (1397)، سقراط کسنوفون، ترجمه یاشار جیرانی، انتشارات پگاه روزگار نو، چاپ اول.
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