The Legacy of Isocrates and a Platonic Alternative: Political Philosophy and the Value of Education

ISBN-13: 9780367588342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 298 str.

James R. Muir

Opis

Bringing together educational philosophy, political thought, and rhetoric, this book examines the influence of the philosopher Isocrates on educational thought and the history of education. Tracing the historical influence of Isocrates’ notions of education from Antiquity to the modern era, Muir questions normative assumptions about the foundati

Spis treści

Introduction

Part 1: Isocrates’ Idea of the Nature and Value of Education

Chapter 1: Isocrates and the history of education: educationists vs. everyone else

Chapter 2: The Isocratic Idea of the Nature and Value of Education

Part 2: The Historical Transmission and Evolution of the Isocratic Idea of Education

Ch. 3: The Isocratic Idea: Rome to the Early Middle Ages

Ch. 4: The Isocratic Idea in the Middle Ages

Ch. 5: The Isocratic Idea in Renaissance Humanism

Ch. 6: Education and Modern Political Philosophy

Part 3: Critique of the Isocratic Idea and Outline of the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative

Ch. 7: The Inadequacy of the Isocratic Idea and DCD Method

Ch. 8: the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative I: Normative Method and Education

Ch. 9: the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative II: an Outline of Educational Practice

Conclusion

References

O autorze

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