On the Socratic education : an introduction to the shorter Platonic dialogues / Christopher Bruell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruell, Christopher, 1942-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Physical Description:

viii, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [1999]

Summary:

Can the education which so many search for today on our college campuses be found in the works of a past author? On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues uncovers the education that Socrates sought on his own behalf and, in so doing, made available to others. Sixteen dialogues are discussed, each considered on its own, but also placed within the context of Plato's account of the Socratic quest. The aim of the book is to make Socrates' investigation and resolution of the questions that still concern us as human beings more accessible to serious contemporary readers.

Contents:

1 Hipparchus, or Lover of Gain 3

2 Minos, or About Law 7

II Students and Teachers

3 Alcibiades 19

4 Second Alcibiades 39

5 Laches 49

6 Euthydemus 63

7 Greater Hippias 75

8 Lesser Hippias 93

9 Theages 103

III The Life Itself

10 Euthyphro 117

11 Apology of Socrates 135

12 Ion 157

13 Meno 165

14 Cleitophon 189

15 Menexenus 201

16 Crito 211.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0847694011

084769402X

OCLC:

40820929