Political Philosophy and Socrates Memoirs

Socrated Memoirs, written by Xenophon, presents a picture of Socrates different from Plato¨s view of Socrates. Having delved into Xenophon¨s work which has the form of biography, the author offers an account about Socrates¨ political philosophy extracted from this work. Among the philosophical issues which have been discussed are the methodology of Socrates¨ dialogues, Socrates¨ anthropology and epistemology which are based on man¨s ability to recognize facts and to know what he really is, the establishment of a political society and setting up a state, citizen¨s willing obedience to law, virtue-centredness and political Utopia. These issues have been extracted, classified and presented as questions about political philosophy.