1st Edition
A Platonic Theory of Moral Education Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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Discussing Plato’s views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Platonic approaches to education can help students navigate today’s increasingly complex moral environment.
Though interest in Platonic education may have waned due to a perceived view of Platonic scholarship as wholly impractical, this volume... Read more
1 The Relationship Between Virtue and Knowledge in the Early Dialogues. 2 Recollection, Wisdom and the Soul’s "Encrustation". 3 Habituation and Kinship with Virtue. 4 Dialogue as a Method for Cultivating the Virtues. 5 The Socratic Method of Inducing Epiphanies. 6 Inducing Epiphanies in Contemporary Classrooms. 7 Rehabituation in the Contemporary Classroom. Appendix: Appetite, Reason, and Education in Socrates’ ‘City of Pigs’.
Biography
Mark E. Jonas is Professor of Education and Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy) at Wheaton College, US.
Yoshiaki Nakazawa is Assistant Professor of Education at University of Dallas, US.
