Socrates' request and the educational narrative of the Timaeus / Charles Ives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ives, Charles, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Timaeus.

Plato.

Socrates.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

xiii, 113 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

Timaeus is not an independent work. It is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast in Critias but was never written. For some time, there has been demand for an account of the relevance between the extant parts of the trilogy-namely the pertinence of Timaeus' cosmology to Critias' war story. As of late, however, there is a more specific interest in the relevance of the cosmology to what is commonly known as "Socrates' Request"-what Socrates is asking of his interlocutors at the outset of the trilogy. While Charles Ives certainly addresses the former, more general demand, the primary concern in this book is with the latter. Socrates is assuredly asking for a story about a war, and Critias provides it. What is less obvious is how Timaeus' contribution fits into this picture. To show the relevance of Timaeus' speech to the request, Ives highlights the educational aspects of both Socrates' request and the dialogue as a whole, charting the progress of an educational program that aims at health. This book focuses on the convalescence of intellect, which ushers in discussions of the medical dimensions of Timaeus' physics, the markedly Platonic project of becoming like god, and the comprehensively philosophical soul that leads its possessor to success on the battlefield. Socrates' Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus is written for those interested in ancient philosophy and philosophy of education. Book jacket.

Contents:

Socrates' request: encomium, education, and war

The educational program of the Timaeus in outline: medicine, cause, and the tripartite structure of Timaeus' speech

Framing the educational narrative: becoming like god in two tasks

Motivating education: incarnation and becoming Emphrōn

The intellectual for the sake of the psycho-political: applied athematics, force, and the two senses of philosophia

Epilogue: philosophy and the warrior.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ives, Charles, 1976- author. Socrates' request and the educational narrative of the Timaeus

ISBN:

9781498528504

1498528503

OCLC:

969383685