Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critical Review on the Book Xenophon’s Socratic Discourse

Document Type : Research

Author

Hassan Fathi

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2021.35393.2173
Abstract
Leo Straus with his writing on Xenophon revives this classical writer’s fame and station, as a Socratic writer, in relation to Plato. According to Straus, we must see Xenophon as more important than Plato as a source for learning about historical Socrates. His Xenophon’s Socratic Discourse (including the English translation of Xenophon’s oeconomicus) does increase our knowledge about both Socrates and Xenophon; moreover, it is an instance of applying Straus’s views on reading philosophical writing by himself in his old age and maturity. Jeyrani’s Persian translation of this work is of acceptable quality. It is an original text accompanied by a valuable interpretation in the classical and modern philosophical literature. His translation can be made better than what it is; and we have proposed something about this, by the way of comparing a few fragments of the text and its translation.
 

Keywords

Xenophon
Socrates
Straus
Jeyrani
Oeconomicus

Subjects

آریستوفانس (۱۳۸۸)، ابرها؛ مجموعۀ کمدی‌های آریستوفانس، ترجمۀ رضا شیرمرز، تهران: قطره.
اشتراوس، لئو (1396)، گفتار سقراطی کسنوفون، ترجمۀ یاشار جیرانی، تهران: آگه.
اشتراوس، لئو (1392)، شهر و انسان، ترجمۀ رسول نمازی، تهران: آگه.
اشتراوس، لئو (1397)، سقراط کسنوفون، ترجمۀ یاشار جیرانی، تهران: پگاه روز نو.
افلاطون (1380)، دوره‌آثار، ترجمۀ محمدحسن لطفی تبریزی، تهران: خوارزمی.
بلوم، آلن (1392)، «درآمدی بر اندیشۀ لئو اشتراوس (1899-1973)»، در: شهر و انسان، لئو اشتراوس، تهران: آگه.
نمازی، رسول (1392)، «پیش‌گفتار»، بر سقراط کسنوفون، لئو اشتراوس، تهران: پگاه روز نو.
 
Xenophon (1997), Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, Apology, trans. E. C. Merchant and O. J. Todd, Harvard University Press.
Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
Volume 21, Issue 11 - Serial Number 99
February 2022
Pages 159-177

  • Receive Date 19 August 2021
  • Revise Date 17 November 2021
  • Accept Date 20 December 2021

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