Platonic dialogue and the education of the reader / A. K. Cotton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cotton, A. K.

Series:

Oxford Classical Monographs

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Dialectic.

Dialogue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A.K. Cotton examines Plato's ideas about education and learning, with a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in approaching philosophical understanding.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Platonic Dialogueand the Educationof the Reader""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Part I""; ""1: Reading Plato�s Dialogues""; ""1.1. CONVERSING AND READING""; ""1.2. READING AS LEARNING""; ""1.3. PLATO�S DIALOGUES: READ OR PERFORMED?""; ""2: Readers and Interlocutors""; ""2.1. THE PRISONER�S ASCENT FROM THE CAVE: A PARADIGM FOR LEARNING""; ""2.2. A DEMANDING TYPE OF READING""; ""2.3. READERS AND INTERLOCUTORS""; ""2.4. DEVELOPING A GENERIC IDENTITY""; ""2.5. PLATO�S CORPUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE READER""

""3: Developing the Virtues of Dialectic: A Model for Reading""""3.1. �MIDDLE� AND �LATE� WORKS: A PARADIGM SHIFT?""; ""3.2. INTERLOCUTORS IN �EARLY� DIALOGUES""; ""3.3. INTERLOCUTORS IN �MIDDLE� DIALOGUES""; ""3.4. INTERLOCUTORS IN �LATE� DIALOGUES""; ""3.5. PROGRESS AND VIRTUE""; ""3.6. LEARNING AMONG READERS""; ""Part II""; ""4: Characterization: A Route into Interpretation?""; ""4.1. SOCRATES AND ALCIBIADES""; ""4.2. CHARACTER: A ROUTE INTO INTERPRETATION?""; ""4.3. CHARACTERS AS ROLE MODELS?""; ""4.4. CHARACTER, REFLECTION, AND CONSTRUCTION""

""4.5. THE CHALLENGE OF CHARACTER: A FUNCTIONAL VIEW""""4.6. SOCRATES: A DOMINANT CHARACTER""; ""4.7. CHARACTERIZATION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF READING""; ""4.8. �LATER� DIALOGUES: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHARACTER""; ""5: Argumentation: A Descent into Didactic Dialectic?""; ""5.1. AUTHORITIES ON WISDOM""; ""5.2. A DESCENT INTO DIDACTIC DIALECTIC?""; ""5.3. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS""; ""5.4. AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: ARGUMENTS AND THEIR PRESENTATION""; ""5.5. �EARLY� ARGUMENTS""; ""5.6. �MIDDLE� ARGUMENTS""; ""5.7. �LATE� ARGUMENTS""; ""5.8. TOWARDS INDEPENDENT READERS AND LEARNERS""

""6: Structure and Unity: Challenging the Reader""""6.1. SEARCHING FOR UNITY""; ""6.2. STRUCTURE AND UNITY: POSSIBLE APPROACHES""; ""6.3. COMMON STRUCTURAL PATTERNS""; ""6.3.1. Dead ends and pauses""; ""6.3.2. Changes in direction""; ""6.3.3. Non-directed structure""; ""6.3.4. Disparate treatment of themes""; ""6.3.5. Iterative structure""; ""6.3.6. Length, proportion, and digression""; ""6.4. STRUCTURAL PATTERNS AND THE READER""; ""6.5. STRUCTURE, UNITY, AND �LIVING� DISCOURSE""; ""7: Plot and Action: Process vs. Resolution""; ""7.1. PLATO�S DIALOGUES: CLASSICAL PLOT?""

""7.2. UNCLASSICAL PLOT: PROLIFERATION, FRAGMENTATION, AND IRRESOLUTION""""7.3. LACHES""; ""7.4. REPUBLIC""; ""7.5. SOPHIST""; ""7.6. RESOLUTION VS. REPETITION: GETTING CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE""; ""8: Reading, Learning, and Acting: Becoming Active Receivers""; ""8.1. THE READER�S PROGRESS""; ""8.2. DIALECTICAL VIRTUE, CIVIC VIRTUE""; ""8.3. THE MYTH OF PHAEDO: FROM READING TO ACTING""; ""References""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Works""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 7, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-150698-2

OCLC:

871173537