Xenophon
Gregory A. McBrayer (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501718496
- eISBN:
- 9781501718519
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501718496.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon’s eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; Agesilaus; Regime of the Lacedaemonians; ...
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This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon’s eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; Agesilaus; Regime of the Lacedaemonians; Regime of the Athenians; Ways and Means, or On Revenue; The Skilled Cavalry Commander; On Horsemanship; and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs. The Agesilaos is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant recounts a searching dialogue between a poet and a tyrant. The Regime of the Lacedaemonians presents itself as a laudatory examination of what turns out to be an oligarchic regime of a certain type, while The Regime of the Athenians offers an unflattering picture of a democratic regime. Ways and Means, or On Revenues offers suggestions on how to improve the political economy of Athens’ troubled democracy. The other three works included here—The Skilled Cavalry Commander, On Horsemanship, and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs—treat skills that are appropriate for gentlemen. By bringing together Xenophon’s shorter writings, this volume aims to help all those interested in Xenophon understand better the core of his thought, political as well as philosophic.Less
This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon’s eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; Agesilaus; Regime of the Lacedaemonians; Regime of the Athenians; Ways and Means, or On Revenue; The Skilled Cavalry Commander; On Horsemanship; and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs. The Agesilaos is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant recounts a searching dialogue between a poet and a tyrant. The Regime of the Lacedaemonians presents itself as a laudatory examination of what turns out to be an oligarchic regime of a certain type, while The Regime of the Athenians offers an unflattering picture of a democratic regime. Ways and Means, or On Revenues offers suggestions on how to improve the political economy of Athens’ troubled democracy. The other three works included here—The Skilled Cavalry Commander, On Horsemanship, and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs—treat skills that are appropriate for gentlemen. By bringing together Xenophon’s shorter writings, this volume aims to help all those interested in Xenophon understand better the core of his thought, political as well as philosophic.
Ernest Campbell Mossner
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199243365
- eISBN:
- 9780191697241
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199243365.003.0038
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
It was An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism, a work that went through five editions between its first appearance in 1770 and the death of David ...
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It was An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism, a work that went through five editions between its first appearance in 1770 and the death of David Hume in 1776, which was chiefly responsible for disturbing the philosopher's tranquillity. The author, James Beattie, was a follower of the ‘Common Sense Philosophy’ that had been instituted in Scotland in 1764 by Thomas Reid, and which two years later had been applied by James Oswald in An Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of Religion. Hume had exchanged amicable letters with Reid, but had completely ignored Oswald. Beattie was not to be ignored, however, for, unlike Hume's other ‘friendly Adversaries’ at Aberdeen, who treated the aging philosopher with the respect due a serious thinker, it was Beattie's intention to arouse the emotional prejudices of his readers.Less
It was An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism, a work that went through five editions between its first appearance in 1770 and the death of David Hume in 1776, which was chiefly responsible for disturbing the philosopher's tranquillity. The author, James Beattie, was a follower of the ‘Common Sense Philosophy’ that had been instituted in Scotland in 1764 by Thomas Reid, and which two years later had been applied by James Oswald in An Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of Religion. Hume had exchanged amicable letters with Reid, but had completely ignored Oswald. Beattie was not to be ignored, however, for, unlike Hume's other ‘friendly Adversaries’ at Aberdeen, who treated the aging philosopher with the respect due a serious thinker, it was Beattie's intention to arouse the emotional prejudices of his readers.
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501718496
- eISBN:
- 9781501718519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501718496.003.0016
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Translation of and Interpretive Essay on Xenophon’s The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs. This this treatise, Xenophon presents what one needs to know in order to track, pursue, and capture wild ...
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Translation of and Interpretive Essay on Xenophon’s The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs. This this treatise, Xenophon presents what one needs to know in order to track, pursue, and capture wild animals. This knowledge concerns such matters as the equipment and methods employed on the hunt; the breeding, training, and leading of dogs; the natures and habits of hare, deer and boar; and the conditions under which these animals may be discovered and caught. The work opens and closes with a defense of hunting as an activity conducive to the virtue of those who take part in it and beneficial to their political communities. The introductory essay considers how the hunting of animals serves as a metaphor for the pursuit of knowledge, and thus reveals something about the philosophic life.Less
Translation of and Interpretive Essay on Xenophon’s The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs. This this treatise, Xenophon presents what one needs to know in order to track, pursue, and capture wild animals. This knowledge concerns such matters as the equipment and methods employed on the hunt; the breeding, training, and leading of dogs; the natures and habits of hare, deer and boar; and the conditions under which these animals may be discovered and caught. The work opens and closes with a defense of hunting as an activity conducive to the virtue of those who take part in it and beneficial to their political communities. The introductory essay considers how the hunting of animals serves as a metaphor for the pursuit of knowledge, and thus reveals something about the philosophic life.
Scott M. Campbell (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823242191
- eISBN:
- 9780823242238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823242191.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter takes up Heidegger's lecture course on Plato's Sophist (G 19). It first addresses Heidegger's complex reading of Aristotle and Plato. Heidegger believes that Aristotle made advances over ...
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This chapter takes up Heidegger's lecture course on Plato's Sophist (G 19). It first addresses Heidegger's complex reading of Aristotle and Plato. Heidegger believes that Aristotle made advances over Plato in terms of ontological research and in terms of his understanding of language. But Heidegger also thought that Plato had a more original relationship to Being and to language than we do today. Thus, this chapter looks closely at the dimension of speaking within Platonic dialectic before then taking up the essential relationship between human existence and speaking. Heidegger rethinks our understanding of language from analyses of propositions to the disclosure of meaningful contexts in factical human life. The function of logos, therefore, is to disclose (deloun) through a context or manifold of words, the ways that factical human Dasein is in the world.Less
This chapter takes up Heidegger's lecture course on Plato's Sophist (G 19). It first addresses Heidegger's complex reading of Aristotle and Plato. Heidegger believes that Aristotle made advances over Plato in terms of ontological research and in terms of his understanding of language. But Heidegger also thought that Plato had a more original relationship to Being and to language than we do today. Thus, this chapter looks closely at the dimension of speaking within Platonic dialectic before then taking up the essential relationship between human existence and speaking. Heidegger rethinks our understanding of language from analyses of propositions to the disclosure of meaningful contexts in factical human life. The function of logos, therefore, is to disclose (deloun) through a context or manifold of words, the ways that factical human Dasein is in the world.
