Plato 's Metaphysics of Education (RLE: Plato) Routledge Library Editions: Plato Series
Auteur : Scolnicov Samuel
This volume provides a comprehensive, learned and lively presentation of the whole range of Plato?s thought but with a particular emphasis upon how Plato developed his metaphysics with a view to supporting his deepest educational convictions. The author explores the relation of Plato?s metaphysics to the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of Plato?s theory of education and shows how Plato?s basic positions bear directly on the most fundamental questions faced by contemporary education.
Preface. Reference to classical works 1. Introduction 2. The Background and the Challenge. Sophistic Education 3. Socrates on the Unity of the Person 4. Education, Teaching and Training: Protagoras 5 The Impossibility of Neutrality: Gorgias 6. Sophistic or Socratic? Euthydemus 7. The Concept of Learning: Meno 8. Recollection Revisited: Theaetetus 9. The Perfectability of the Individual. Phaedrus and Symposium 10. Method and Truth: Republic V-VII 11. Virtue without Knowledge: Republic I-IV, IX-X 12. An Educator Looks at Literature and Drama: Republic II-III, X. Notes. Index.
Date de parution : 03-2014
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Plato 's Metaphysics of Education (RLE: Plato) :
Mots-clés :
plato's; socratic; elenchus; geometry; lesson; dialogue; platonic; dialogues; eyes; view; Young Man; Good Life; Socratic Elenchus; Plato's Eyes; Plato's Metaphysics; Political Excellence; Hedonic Calculus; Platonic Socrates; Plato's Eros; Prob Abilities; Pur Suit; Plato's Middle Dialogues; Geometry Lesson; Bishop Berkeley; Aviary Model; Vice Versa; Non-empirical Dimension; Plato's Portrait; Dia Ti; Human Excellence; Literary Socrates; Double Square; Plato's Socratic Dialogue; Meno's Question; Boy's Opinions