Xenophon's Philosophic Odyssey

On theAnabasisand Plato'sRepublic

Bibliographic Data

ID3765155
AuthorsJacob Howland (University of Tulsa, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume94
Issue4
Pages875-889
Publication date2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2586213
OpenAlexW2014712021
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

Xenophon'sAnabasis, a military adventure interwoven with a story of philosophical self-discovery, is a companion piece to Plato'sRepublic. TheAnabasistakes up in deed the two great political problems treated in speech in theRepublic, namely, how a just community can come into being and how philosophy and political 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 theRepublic. He speaks to the second problem by clarifying the essential role of philosophicalerôsin his emergence, at the moment of crisis, as the founder and leader of a well-ordered community. Xenophon's self-presentation in theAnabasis, which makes clear his debt to Socrates, illuminates the nature of philosophical courage as well as the saving integrity of the philosophical soul

Ancient philosophy · Art · Cicero · Courage · Deed · Epistemology · Literature · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Presentation (obstetrics · SOCRATES · Soul · The Republic · Theology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Medicine · Philosophy

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