A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms

ISBN-13: 9780367226572 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 202 str.

Mark Jonas; Yoshiaki Nakazawa

Opis

Discussing Plato’s views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Platonic approaches to education can help students navigate today’s increasingly complex moral environment.

Spis treści

1  The Relationship Between Virtue and Knowledge in the Early Dialogues.  2  Recollection, Wisdom and the Soul’s "Encrustation".  3  Habituation and Kinship with Virtue.  4  Dialogue as a Method for Cultivating the Virtues.  5  The Socratic Method of Inducing Epiphanies.  6  Inducing Epiphanies in Contemporary Classrooms.  7  Rehabituation in the Contemporary Classroom.  Appendix: Appetite, Reason, and Education in Socrates’ ‘City of Pigs’.