Plato's metaphysics of education / Samuel Scolnicov
1988, First Edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #395539
ISBN: 0415018641
Series; Philosophy of education research library. Notes; Series statement from jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Introduction -- 2. The background and the challenge : sophistic education -- 3. Socrates on the unity of the person -- 4. Education, teaching and training : Protagoras -- 5. The impossibility of neutrality : Gorgias -- 6. Sophistic or Socratic? : Euthydemus -- 7. The concept of learning : Meno -- 8. Recollection revisited : Theaetetus -- 9. The perfectibility of the individual : Phaedrus and Symposium -- 10. Method and truth : Republic V-VII -- 11. Virtue without knowledge : Republic I-IV, IX-X -- 12. An educator looks at literature and drama : Republic II-III, X. Subjects; Plato. Metaphysics. Education, Greek Philosophy. Philosophy. Education Theories of Plato.
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