Plato 's Metaphysics of Education

ISBN-13: 9780415625531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 158 str.

Samuel Scolnicov

Opis

This volume provides a comprehensive and lively presentation of the whole range of Plato's thought, with a particular emphasis on how Plato developed his metaphysics with a view to supporting his deepest educational convictions.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Samuel Scolnicov