Gabriel Danzig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3094773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Danzig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Danzig |
| SIGNATURE | DANZIG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6967-8846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Xenophon’s Virtues
While Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of virtue have received extensive scholarly attention, less work has been done on Xenophon’s portraits of virtue and on his attitude towards the theoretical issues connected with it. And yet, Xenophon offers one of the best sources we have for thinking about virtue in ancient Greece, because he combines the analytical interests of a Socratic with a historian’s interest in real life. Until recently, scholars …
Xenophon's Virtues
Socrates the Eutrapelos: Xenophon and Aristotle on Ethical Virtue
The social virtues are not discussed thematically in the Socratic writings of Plato and Xenophon, but they are on display everywhere. Taking Aristotle's accounts of these virtues as a touchstone, this paper explores the portrait of Socrates as a model of good humour in Xenophon's Symposium . While Xenophon is addressing the same issues as Aristotle, and shares some of his red lines, his conception of the ideal humourist and of virtue in general d…
O Melhor Dos Aquêmidas: Benevolência, Interesse Próprio E a Leitura ‘Irônica’ Da Ciropédia
Críticos argumentam que, apesar de manter uma aparência de benevolência, na realidade, Ciro está sempre incansavelmente buscando o seu próprio interesse. Isto, porém, é uma dicotomia falsa. Para Xenofonte, a busca dos próprios interesses não contradiz nem a benevolência nem a beneficência. Ao contrário, a benevolência e a beneficência contribuem para a obtenção dos objetivos de interesse próprio e portanto a busca dos interesses próprios requerem…
Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies
Plato and Xenophon are the two students of Socrates whose works have come down to us in their entirety. Their works have been studied by countless scholars over the generations; but rarely have they been brought into direct contact, outside of their use in relation to the Socratic problem. This volume changes that, by offering a collection of articles containing comparative analyses of almost the entire range of Plato's and Xenophon's writings, a…
Plato and Xenophon
The Use and Abuse of Critias: Conflicting Portraits in Plato and Xenophon
This paper aims to explain the very sharp contrast between the portraits of Critias found in Plato and Xenophon. While depicted as a monster in Xenophon's Hellenica , Critias is described with at most mild criticism in Plato's writings. Each of these portraits is eccentric in its own way, and these eccentricities can be explained by considering the apologetic and polemic aims each author pursued. In doing so, I hope to shed light not only on the …
The Best of the Achaemenids: Benevolence, Self-Interest and the ‘Ironic’ Reading of Cyropaedia
Xenophon?s Cyropaedia tells the historical-fictional story of how Cyrus founded the Persian empire. Critics argue that although he maintains a pretence of benevolence, in reality Cyrus is always relentlessly pursuing his own interest. This, however, is a false dichotomy. For Xenophon, the pursuit of self-interest does not contradict either benevolence or beneficence. On the contrary, benevolence and beneficence contribute to obtaining self-intere…
Big Boys And Little Boys: Justice And Law In Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorabilia
Xenophon’s anecdote concerning the exchange of clothes between a big boy and a little boy in Cyropaedia (1.3.16–18) offers a valuable framework for understanding his conception of justice and the problematics of administering it. Interpreters have erred by assuming that Cyrus’ teacher, as well as Socrates in Memorabilia, simply identifies the just with the lawful. Rather than identifying the two, both characters argue that the law is just; but th…
Crito and the Socratic Controversy
Crito was written in response to popular slanders concerning Socrates’ failure to escape from prison, and accompanying misgivings within the Socratic circle. Plato responds by asking his audience to disregard the slander of the mob and obey the moral expert instead. But he also responds by creating an image of Socrates and his friends widely at odds with the popular slander; by implying that Socrates’ critics were themselves guilty of some of the…
Apologizing for Socrates: Plato and Xenophon on Socrates' Behavior in Court
This paper argues that the accounts of Socrates' behavior in court given by both Plato and Xenophon stem from the need these authors felt to respond, in different ways, to the post-trial debate about Socrates. Plato's aim in the Apology was primarily to respond to specific charges of incompetence, arrogance, and failure in court. Central literary and philosophical difficulties in the composition can be explained on this basis, as can characterist…
Why Socrates was not a Farmer: Xenophon’s Oeconomicus as a Philosophical Dialogue
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The Political Character of Aristotelian Reciprocity
Big Boys And Little Boys: Justice And Law In Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorabilia
Xenophon’s anecdote concerning the exchange of clothes between a big boy and a little boy in Cyropaedia (1.3.16–18) offers a valuable framework for understanding his conception of justice and the problematics of administering it. Interpreters have erred by assuming that Cyrus’ teacher, as well as Socrates in Memorabilia, simply identifies the just with the lawful. Rather than identifying the two, both characters argue that the law is just; but th…
The Use and Abuse of Critias: Conflicting Portraits in Plato and Xenophon
This paper aims to explain the very sharp contrast between the portraits of Critias found in Plato and Xenophon. While depicted as a monster in Xenophon's Hellenica , Critias is described with at most mild criticism in Plato's writings. Each of these portraits is eccentric in its own way, and these eccentricities can be explained by considering the apologetic and polemic aims each author pursued. In doing so, I hope to shed light not only on the …
The Political Character of Aristotelian Reciprocity
Apologizing for Socrates: Plato and Xenophon on Socrates' Behavior in Court
This paper argues that the accounts of Socrates' behavior in court given by both Plato and Xenophon stem from the need these authors felt to respond, in different ways, to the post-trial debate about Socrates. Plato's aim in the Apology was primarily to respond to specific charges of incompetence, arrogance, and failure in court. Central literary and philosophical difficulties in the composition can be explained on this basis, as can characterist…
Why Socrates was not a Farmer: Xenophon’s Oeconomicus as a Philosophical Dialogue
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Crito and the Socratic Controversy
Crito was written in response to popular slanders concerning Socrates’ failure to escape from prison, and accompanying misgivings within the Socratic circle. Plato responds by asking his audience to disregard the slander of the mob and obey the moral expert instead. But he also responds by creating an image of Socrates and his friends widely at odds with the popular slander; by implying that Socrates’ critics were themselves guilty of some of the…
Big Boys And Little Boys: Justice And Law In Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorabilia
Xenophon’s anecdote concerning the exchange of clothes between a big boy and a little boy in Cyropaedia (1.3.16–18) offers a valuable framework for understanding his conception of justice and the problematics of administering it. Interpreters have erred by assuming that Cyrus’ teacher, as well as Socrates in Memorabilia, simply identifies the just with the lawful. Rather than identifying the two, both characters argue that the law is just; but th…
The Best of the Achaemenids: Benevolence, Self-Interest and the ‘Ironic’ Reading of Cyropaedia
Xenophon?s Cyropaedia tells the historical-fictional story of how Cyrus founded the Persian empire. Critics argue that although he maintains a pretence of benevolence, in reality Cyrus is always relentlessly pursuing his own interest. This, however, is a false dichotomy. For Xenophon, the pursuit of self-interest does not contradict either benevolence or beneficence. On the contrary, benevolence and beneficence contribute to obtaining self-intere…
The Use and Abuse of Critias: Conflicting Portraits in Plato and Xenophon
This paper aims to explain the very sharp contrast between the portraits of Critias found in Plato and Xenophon. While depicted as a monster in Xenophon's Hellenica , Critias is described with at most mild criticism in Plato's writings. Each of these portraits is eccentric in its own way, and these eccentricities can be explained by considering the apologetic and polemic aims each author pursued. In doing so, I hope to shed light not only on the …
Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies
Plato and Xenophon are the two students of Socrates whose works have come down to us in their entirety. Their works have been studied by countless scholars over the generations; but rarely have they been brought into direct contact, outside of their use in relation to the Socratic problem. This volume changes that, by offering a collection of articles containing comparative analyses of almost the entire range of Plato's and Xenophon's writings, a…
Plato and Xenophon
O Melhor Dos Aquêmidas: Benevolência, Interesse Próprio E a Leitura ‘Irônica’ Da Ciropédia
Críticos argumentam que, apesar de manter uma aparência de benevolência, na realidade, Ciro está sempre incansavelmente buscando o seu próprio interesse. Isto, porém, é uma dicotomia falsa. Para Xenofonte, a busca dos próprios interesses não contradiz nem a benevolência nem a beneficência. Ao contrário, a benevolência e a beneficência contribuem para a obtenção dos objetivos de interesse próprio e portanto a busca dos interesses próprios requerem…
Xenophon's Virtues
Socrates the Eutrapelos: Xenophon and Aristotle on Ethical Virtue
The social virtues are not discussed thematically in the Socratic writings of Plato and Xenophon, but they are on display everywhere. Taking Aristotle's accounts of these virtues as a touchstone, this paper explores the portrait of Socrates as a model of good humour in Xenophon's Symposium . While Xenophon is addressing the same issues as Aristotle, and shares some of his red lines, his conception of the ideal humourist and of virtue in general d…
Xenophon’s Virtues
While Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of virtue have received extensive scholarly attention, less work has been done on Xenophon’s portraits of virtue and on his attitude towards the theoretical issues connected with it. And yet, Xenophon offers one of the best sources we have for thinking about virtue in ancient Greece, because he combines the analytical interests of a Socratic with a historian’s interest in real life. Until recently, scholars …
Philosophy (10 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · SOCRATES (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Socratic method (4 works) · History (3 works)