Platonic Dialogue And The Education Of The Reader

Author : A. K. Cotton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199684057
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader written by A. K. Cotton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A. K. Cotton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191506982
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader written by A. K. Cotton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: New national edition. I. The Republic, introduction and analysis.--II. The Republic.--III. The trial and death of Socrates.--IV. Charmides and other dialogues, Selections from the Laws.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers: The Republic and the Timæus written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Bruell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461639735
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Socratic Education written by Christopher Bruell and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the education which so many search for today on our college campuses be found in the works of a past author? On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues uncovers the education that Socrates sought on his own behalf and, in so doing, made available to others. Sixteen dialogues are discussed, each considered on its own, but also placed within the context of Plato's account of the Socratic quest. The aim of the book is to make Socrates' investigation and resolution of the questions that still concern us as human beings more accessible to serious contemporary readers.

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139433660
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues written by Ruby Blondell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mason Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000328252
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Plato's Dialogues to Enhance Learning and Inquiry written by Mason Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly volume proposes protreptic as a radically new way of reading Plato’s dialogues leading to enhanced student engagement in learning and inquiry. Through analysis of Platonic dialogues including Crito, Euthyphro, Meno, and Republic, the text highlights Socrates’ ways of fostering and encouraging self-examination and conscionable reflection. By focusing his work on Socrates’ use of protreptic, Marshall proposes a practical approach to reading Plato, illustrating how his writings can be used to enhance intrinsic motivation amongst students, and help them develop the thinking skills required for democratic and civic engagement. This engaging volume will be of interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars concerned with Plato’s dialogues, the philosophy of education, and ancient philosophy more broadly, as well as post-graduate students interested in moral and values education research.

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739171399
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato the Teacher written by William H. F. Altman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Cambridge : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers written by Plato and published by Cambridge : Macmillan. This book was released on 1859 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandra Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497979
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato written by Sandra Peterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.