Plato's Socrates, Philosophy and Education

• Main Author: Magrini, James M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education,
• Subjects: Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Teaching.; Learning.; Instruction.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Classical Philosophy.

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, cooperative...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Doctrinal and Non-Doctrinal Interpretations of Plato and Plato's Socrates
• Chapter One: Plato's Socrates: The Issues of Pedagogy and Knowledge of the Virtues
• Chapter Two: The Ontological Context of the Human Condition Original Socratic Questions and the Paradox of Learning
• The Unfolding of the Elenchus-Dialectic as "Educative" Event Instantiating an Ethical Disposition Through Socratic Dialogue
• Epilogue: Learning From Plato's Socrates.