On the Socratic Education

An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Can the education which so many search for today on our college campuses be found in the works of a past author? On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues uncovers the education that Socrates sought on his own behalf and, in so doing, made available to others. Sixteen dialogues are discussed, each considered on its own, but also placed within the context of Plato's account of the Socratic quest. The aim of the book is to make Socrates' investigation and resolution of the questions that still concern us as human beings more accessible to serious contemporary readers.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-04-08
Mått154 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847694020

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Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Hipparchus, or Lover of GainChapter 3 Minos, or About LawPart 4 Students and TeachersChapter 5 AlcibiadesChapter 6 Second AlcibiadesChapter 7 LachesChapter 8 EuthydemusChapter 9 Greater HippiasChapter 10 Lesser HippiasChapter 11 TheagesPart 12 The Life ItselfChapter 13 EuthyphroChapter 14 Apology of SocratesChapter 15 IonChapter 16 MenoChapter 17 ContentsPart 18 ConclusionChapter 19 CleitophonChapter 20 MenexenusChapter 21 CritoChapter 22 Index of Textual ReferencesChapter 23 About the Author

This outstanding work provides the most penetrating analysis I have yet encountered of the precise goals and methods of that educational activity in which Socrates so fully and fruitfully engaged for the benefit of himself and others. The author proceeds through an interpretation, tightly and economically focused on this theme, of the shorter Platonic dialogues—many of which have never before received so serious and so illuminating an exegesis. . . . The scholarship is meticulous, the contribution—to the fields of Plato studies, educational theory, classical philosophy, and political philosophy—truly major.