Plato's Socrates as EducatorDespite his ceaseless efforts to purge his fellow citizens of their unfounded opinions and to bring them to care for what he believes to be the most important things, Plato's Socrates rarely succeeds in his pedagogical project with the characters he encounters. This is in striking contrast to the historical Socrates, who spawned the careers of Plato, Xenophon, and other authors of Socratic dialogues. Through an examination of Socratic pedagogy under its most propitious conditions, focusing on a narrow class of dialogues featuring Lysis and Alcibiades, this book answers the question: "why does Plato portray his divinely appointed gadfly as such a dramatic failure?" |
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User Review - reganrule - LibraryThingn spite of Socrates' claim(s) that he never taught anyone, this book supposes that he did. According to Scott, if we pay attention to the dramatic elements of Plato's dialogues, rather than focusing ... Read full review
Contents
Socrates and Teaching | 13 |
SECTION 1A WHY SOCRATES DENIES BEING A TEACHER | 15 |
SECTION 1B CONVENTIONAL ATHENIAN ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT TEACHERS AND TEACHING | 24 |
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN A MARKET AND A GIFT ECONOMY | 27 |
ADDITIVE VERSUS INTEGRATIVE MODELS | 37 |
THE SOCRATIC PAIDEUSIS | 43 |
The Lysis Limits and Liberation in Socrates Encounter with Lysis | 51 |
SECTION 2A THE THRESHOLD IMAGERY IN THE DRAMATIC SETTING AND PROLOGUE 203A1206E2 | 59 |
SECTION 3C THE MEANING OF TAKING TROUBLE OVER ONESELF | 93 |
GUMNASTIKE AND MATHESIS | 98 |
THE OMINOUS END OF THE | 116 |
The Symposium Eros Truth Telling and the Preservation of Freedom | 119 |
SECTION 4A ALCIBIADES MOTIVE IN THE AGON WITH SOCRATES | 121 |
SECTION 4B ALCIBIADES ATTEMPT TO DOMINATE SOCRATES | 126 |
Two WAYS OF TELLING THE TRUTH | 138 |
ADJUDICATING THE AGON OVER TRUTH TELLING | 152 |
SECTION 2B SOCRATES FIRST CONVERSATION WITH LYSIS 206E3211B5 | 62 |
THE POSITIVE RESULTS OF THE LYSIS | 74 |
The Alcibiades I Socratic Dialogue as SelfCare | 81 |
THE PRELIMINARY CONTEST | 86 |
SECTION 3B INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM OF TAKING TROUBLE OVER ONESELF | 91 |
Dramatic Failure and the Gift in Socratic Paideusis | 159 |
INTRODUCTION | 179 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Plato's Socrates as Educator SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy |
| Author | Gary Alan Scott |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0791447235, 9780791447239 |
| Length | 251 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
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