Legacy of Isocrates and a Platonic Alternative

James Muir is Professor of Philosophy at University of Winnipeg, Canada.

• IntroductionPart 1: Isocrates’ Idea of the Nature and Value of EducationChapter 1: Isocrates and the history of education: educationists vs. everyone else Chapter 2: The Isocratic Idea of the Nature and Value of EducationPart 2: The Historical Transmission and Evolution of the Isocratic Idea of EducationCh. 3: The Isocratic Idea: Rome to the Early Middle AgesCh. 4: The Isocratic Idea in the Middle Ages Ch. 5: The Isocratic Idea in Renaissance HumanismCh. 6: Education and Modern Political PhilosophyPart 3: Critique of the Isocratic Idea and Outline of the Parmenidean-Platonic AlternativeCh. 7: The Inadequacy of the Isocratic Idea and DCD MethodCh. 8: the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative I: Normative Method and Education Ch. 9: the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative II: an Outline of Educational PracticeConclusionReferences