Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. A Note on the Manuscript xvii
6. Introduction: Socratic Educations: On the Writings of Christopher Bruell 1
7. Part I. Introductions
8. 1 Liberal Education and Education for Citizenship 51
9. 2. On Reading Plato Today 65
10. 3. Plato and Relativism 79
11. Part II. Beginnings
12. 4. Thucydides’ View of Athenian Imperialism 93
13. 5. Socratic Politics and Self-Knowledge: An Interpretation of Plato’s Charmides 107
14. 6. On the Original Meaning of Political Philosophy: An Interpretation of Plato’s Lovers 179
15. Part III. Writings on Strauss
16. 7. Strauss on Xenophon’s Socrates 201
17. 8. A Return to Classical Political Philosophy and the Understanding of the American Founding 255
18. 9. “True Esotericism” 269
19. 10. On the Place of the Treatment of Classical Philosophy in the Plan of Natural Right and History as a Whole 277
20. 11. The Question of Nature and the Thought of Leo Strauss 285
21. Part IV. Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle
22. 12 Xenophon 299
23. 13. On Plato’s Political Philosophy 331
24. 14. Aristotle on Theory and Practice 351
25. Part V. Death and Happiness
26. 15 Death in the Perspective of Philosophy 367
27. 16. Happiness in the Perspective of Philosophy 383
28. 17. What Xenophon Learned from Socrates about Philosophy and the Philosophic Life 399
29. Part VI. An Undelivered Lecture
30. 18 Theses Bearing on the Understanding of Aristotle’s Natural Science 415
31. Index 435