Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader

ISBN-13: 9780199684052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 344 str.

A. K. Cotton

Opis

In this volume, Cotton examines Plato's ideas about education and learning. With a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in approaching philosophical understanding, the book argues that a reader's experience can be parallel in kind and value to that of the interlocutors we see conversing in the dialogues, in that it can constitute learning.
The study suggests that the corpus of Plato's works presents an arena for the reader to progress through the different stages of learning, providing them with the stimuli appropriate to their philosophical advancement at each point and encouraging them to take increasing responsibility for their own learning. Individual chapters focus on characterization, argumentation, structure and unity, plot, and myth as means by which the dialogues encourage their readers to engage in this productive and distinctive way.

Recenzje

clearly structured, lucidly written, and ... convincingly argued ... Cotton opens up many interesting new paths for further exploration.

O autorze

Anne K. Cotton teaches Classics at Magdalen College School in Oxford, where she is also Head of Upper School.