Platonic Dialogue And The Education Of The Reader
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Author | : A. K. Cotton |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2014-02-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191506982 |
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 developing 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 constituting learning. The study suggests that, just as Socratic conversation acts as a context for the interlocutors development of dialectical virtues, so the corpus of Plato's works presents an arena for readers 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. Accordingly, the study proposes that the shape of the corpus, and the changes we observe between early, middle, and late dialogues, are best interpreted with reference to the changing needs of receivers at different stages of their philosophical development. 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.
Author | : A. K. Cotton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0199684057 |
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.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Ruby Blondell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139433660 |
This book attempts to bridge the gulf that still exists between 'literary' and 'philosophical' interpreters of Plato by looking at his use of characterization. Characterization is intrinsic to dramatic form and a concern with human character in an ethical sense pervades the dialogues on the discursive level. Form and content are further reciprocally related through Plato's discursive preoccupation with literary characterization. Two opening chapters examine the methodological issues involved in reading Plato 'as drama' and a set of questions surrounding Greek 'character' words (especially ethos), including ancient Greek views about the influence of dramatic character on an audience. The figure of Sokrates qua Platonic 'hero' also receives preliminary discussion. The remaining chapters offer close readings of select dialogues, chosen to show the wide range of ways in which Plato uses his characters, with special emphasis on the kaleidoscopic figure of Sokrates and on Plato's own relationship to his 'dramatic' hero.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2020-12-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004443991 |
Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato focuses on the intricate and multifarious ways in which Plato frames his dialogues, with a view to exploring the complex association between framework and philosophical content.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Cambridge : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Author | : William H. F. Altman |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739171399 |
In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opposed to determining the order in which he wrote them, Altman breaks with traditional methods by reading Plato’s dialogues as a multiplex but coherent curriculum in which the Allegory of the Cave occupies the central place. His reading of Plato's Republic challenges the true philosopher to choose the life of justice exemplified by Socrates and Cicero by going back down into the Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Dialogues, Greek |
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Author | : Sandra Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2011-03-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139497979 |
In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics.