Socrate e la cura dell'anima. Dialogo e apertura al mondo

This book deals with the Greek cure of the soul, focusing in particular on Socrates, who turned this idea into the core of his own philosophy. The first chapter offers an overlook of the different meanings of psyche from myth to Homer, Orphism, and the Presocratics (until Diogenes of Apollonia). The following chapters deal with Socrates’ peculiar understanding of the cure of the soul. Chapter two introduces to the “Socratic question” from the viewpoint of the Socratic cure of the soul. Chapter three focuses on the dialogues attributed to Plato (Apology, Phaedrus, and the First Alcibiades). Chapter four on Xenophon’s Memorabilia. The study shows that one common thread among these different accounts is the relationship between the soul and the divine: the Socratic cure of the soul implies an openness to both the world and its cosmic order.