Christopher Bruell

Editors' Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Manuscript

Introduction: Socratic Educations: On the Writings of Christopher Bruell
James W. Guest II

Part I. Introductions

1. Liberal Education and Education for Citizenship

2. On Reading Plato Today

3. Plato and Relativism

Part II. Beginnings

4. Thucydides' View of Athenian Imperialism

5. Socratic Politics and Self-Knowledge: An Interpretation of Plato's Charmides

6. On the Original Meaning of Political Philosophy: An Interpretation of Plato's Lovers

Part III. Writings on Strauss

7. Strauss on Xenophon's Socrates

8. A Return to Classical Political Philosophy and the Understanding of the American Founding

9. "True Esotericism"

10. On the Place of the Treatment of Classical Philosophy in the Plan of Natural Right and History as a Whole

11. The Question of Nature and the Thought of Leo Strauss

Part IV. Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle

12. Xenophon

13. On Plato's Political Philosophy

14. Aristotle on Theory and Practice

Part V. Death and Happiness

15. Death in the Perspective of Philosophy

16. Happiness in the Perspective of Philosophy

17. What Xenophon Learned from Socrates about Philosophy and the Philosophic Life

Part VI. An Undelivered Lecture

18. Theses Bearing on the Understanding of Aristotle's Natural Science

Index

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• Teoria e ciência política
• Filosofia ocidental: Antiga, a C 500
• Filosofia social e política

Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Leo Strauss, classic philosophers, problem of relativism, American Founding