The principle of integrity as the principle of potency in Socrates according to Xenophon’s writings

• Grant number: 15/50055-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Olgária Chain Féres Matos
• Grantee: Olgária Chain Féres Matos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

From the paradigmatic reference and example of Socratic discipline (I Zen) in the Xenophon’s writings the reflections about the re-integrating principle facing the inexhaustible, uncertain and unknown reality can be developed, searching the proportional reconciliation, the dynamic harmony the satisfactory and reasonable integrity for the human being to acquire not only the philosophical understanding, but also the conditions of resistant, of strategic flexibility the sufficient capacity to deal with and transform the fundamental problems of existence. (AU)