Plato the teacher : the crisis of the republic / William H. F. Altman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altman, William H. F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Republic.

Plato.

Teaching--Methodology.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2012.

Summary:

In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student.

Contents:

Plato The Teacher

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface to Plato the Teacher

An Introduction to Plato's Republic: Inside and Outside the Text

1 The First Words of Plato's Πολιτεία

1. ϰατέβην

2. ϰθέϛ

3. είϛ Πειϱαιᾶ

4. μετὰ Γλαύϰωνοϛ

5. τοῦ Άϱίστωνοϛ

2 Challenges

6. Cephalus and the Meaning of Life

7. Polemarchus Meets Appearance and Reality

8. Thrasymachus and the City of Good Men Only

9. Glaucon's Challenge to Socrates

10. The Challenge of Adeimantus to Plato

3 The Shorter Way

11. Introduction to Methodology

12. Methodology II: Hypotheses

13. Methodology III: Images

14. Looking Out for Number One

15. Making Friends with Thrasymachus

4 The Longer Way

16. The Speech to the Guardians

17. Justice and the Good on the Divided Line

18. The Idea of the Good and Plato's Theory of Forms

19. An Intellectual History of the Return

20. Whistling a Tune on the Way Down

5 The Firesticks

21. 434d1-435a4

22. Two Jobs for One Man: Beyond the Tripartite Soul

23. The Third Wave of Paradox

24. Plato's Letters

25. Untimely Meditations on the Idea of Justice

6 Democracy and Education

26. Genetic Fictions

27. The Equality of the Sexes

28. Higher Education: Why the Good is not the One

29. Reading Order Revisited

30. The Age of Heroes

7 Choices

31. The Sewer of Romulus

32. The Perfectly Bearable Lightness of Being

33. Coming Up and Going Down

34. Plato the Imitator

35. Odysseus or Achilles?

Bibliography

Index

Index verborum

Index locorum

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed August 15, 2016).

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ISBN:

0-7391-7139-9

OCLC:

940326681