Plato's Socrates as Educator - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato's Socrates as Educator write by Gary Alan Scott. This book was released on 2000-10-19. Plato's Socrates as Educator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite 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?"
Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education
Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education write by James M. Magrini. This book was released on 2017-12-01. Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops for the readers Plato’s Socrates’ non-formalized “philosophical practice” of learning-through-questioning in the company of others. In doing so, the writer confronts Plato’s Socrates, in the words of John Dewey, as the “dramatic, restless, cooperatively inquiring philosopher" of the dialogues, whose view of education and learning is unique: (1) It is focused on actively pursuing a form of philosophical understanding irreducible to truth of a propositional nature, which defies “transfer” from practitioner to pupil; (2) It embraces the perennial “on-the-wayness” of education and learning in that to interrogate the virtues, or the “good life,” through the practice of the dialectic, is to continually renew the quest for a deeper understanding of things by returning to, reevaluating and modifying the questions originally posed regarding the “good life.” Indeed Socratic philosophy is a life of questioning those aspects of existence that are most question-worthy; and (3) It accepts that learning is a process guided and structured by dialectic inquiry, and is already immanent within and possible only because of the unfolding of the process itself, i.e., learning is not a goal that somehow stands outside the dialectic as its end product, which indicates erroneously that the method or practice is disposable. For learning occurs only through continued, sustained communal dialogue.
Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education
Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education write by James M. Magrini. This book was released on 2016-11-25. Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bridging the gap between interpretations of "Third Way" Platonic scholarship and "phenomenological-ontological" scholarship, this book argues for a unique ontological-hermeneutic interpretation of Plato and Plato’s Socrates. Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education offers a re-reading of Plato and Plato’s Socrates in terms of interpreting the practice of education as care for the soul through the conceptual lenses of phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, and ontological inquiry. Magrini contrasts his re-reading with the views of Plato and Plato’s Socrates that dominate contemporary education, which, for the most part, emerge through the rigid and reductive categorization of Plato as both a "realist" and "idealist" in philosophical foundations texts (teacher education programs). This view also presents what he terms the questionable "Socrates-as-teacher" model, which grounds such contemporary educational movements as the Paideia Project, which claims to incorporate, through a "scripted-curriculum" with "Socratic lesson plans," the so-called "Socratic Method" into the Common Core State Standards Curriculum as a "technical" skill that can be taught and learned as part of the students’ "critical thinking" skills. After a careful reading incorporating what might be termed a "Third Way" of reading Plato and Plato’s Socrates, following scholars from the Continental tradition, Magrini concludes that a so-called "Socratic education" would be nearly impossible to achieve and enact in the current educational milieu of standardization or neo-Taylorism (Social Efficiency). However, despite this, he argues in the affirmative that there is much educators can and must learn from this "non-doctrinal" re-reading and re-characterization of Plato and Plato’s Socrates.
Plato's Socrates as Educator
Plato's Socrates as Educator - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato's Socrates as Educator write by Gary Alan Scott. This book was released on 2000-10-19. Plato's Socrates as Educator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite 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?"
Badiou and Plato
Badiou and Plato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Badiou and Plato write by A.J Bartlett. This book was released on 2011-06-29. Badiou and Plato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book will help you to understand Badiou's central concepts, the philosophical relation between Badiou and Plato and will rethink the importance of Badiou's 'Platonic' claim that 'the only education is an education by truths'.
