The Arts of Rule: Essays in Honor of Harvey C. Mansfield by Sharon R. Krause and Mary Ann McGrail

By Sharon R. Krause and Mary Ann McGrail

The humanities of rule hide the workout of energy via princes and well known sovereigns, yet they vary past the area of presidency itself, extending to civil institutions, political events, and spiritual associations. Making complete use of political philosophy from various backgrounds, this festschrift for Harvey Mansfield acknowledges that even if the humanities of rule are accomplished, the simplest govt is a restricted one.

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CONCLUSION In a way, Socrates proves to be as incapable of friendship as Cyrus. To be sure, Socrates’s practice of friendship is clearly superior to Cyrus’s: Socrates’s wisdom enabled him to foster friendships among his followers and companions. The artificiality and constraint of Cyrus’s dinner party with his leading followers (Cyr. 41 Cyrus’s singleminded pursuit of power led him to debase his followers, to reduce them to ever more perfect instruments of his will. In the process, he eroded his followers’ and his own capacity for friendship.

While ostensibly educating Socrates about how this can be done, Ischomachus inadvertently reveals some of the unexamined presuppositions of the gentleman’s understanding of life. Socrates shows a keen interest in how Ischomachus educated his wife and his servants to be loyal and dedicated subordinates in the running of the household. In general, Ischomachus’s tone throughout these discussions is easygoing and self-satisfied. He expresses confidence that he knows how to teach others to be just, diligent, and devoted to his interests.

14). Drawn by Socrates’s almost flirtatious teasing, he comes to Socrates to converse, and is easily led to confess that his mode of education had left him without genuine knowledge of justice, of himself, and of the nature of democracy. Xenophon adds that “many” whom Socrates had thus reduced to aporia avoided him thereafter. Euthydemus, however, associated thereafter with Socrates, who “explained in the most simple and clear manner what he held he [Euthydemus] should know and what he held best for him to pursue” (Mem.

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