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Bitter knowledge : learning Socratic lessons of disillusion and renewal / Thomas D. Eisele.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisele, Thomas D., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Questioning.
- Socrates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bitter Knowledge examines the Socratic method in three fundamental Platonic dialogues, Protagoras, Meno, and Theaetetus, contending that the method is really a cyclical one of disillusionment and renewal.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Participating in disillusion and renewal
- Who can teach us? And what can they teach us? Socrates recounts his conversations in the Protagoras
- The poverty of Socratic questioning : asking and answering in the Meno
- The labor of Socratic inquiry : learning in the Theaetetus to give an account of oneself
- Learning to find ourselves at a loss : how does philosophy begin?
- Epilogue: Realities of the classroom.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268078638
- 0268078637
- OCLC:
- 694144458
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