Plato the Teacher

William H. F. Altman

doi:10.5771/9780739171394

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. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opposed to determining the order in which he wrote them, Altman breaks with traditional methods by reading Plato’s dialogues as a multiplex but coherent curriculum in which the Allegory of the Cave occupies the central place. His reading of Plato's Republic challenges the true philosopher to choose the life of justice exemplified by Socrates and Cicero by going back down into the Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good.

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Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-7138-7
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-7139-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 1
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
3. Preface to Plato the Teacher No access
An Introduction to Plato's Republic: Inside and Outside the Text No access Pages 1 - 36
1. §1. ϰατέβην No access
2. §2. ϰθέϛ No access
3. §3. είϛ Πειϱαιᾶ No access
4. §4. μετὰ Γλαύϰωνοϛ No access
5. §5. τοῦ Άϱίστωνοϛ No access
1. §6. Cephalus and the Meaning of Life No access
2. §7. Polemarchus Meets Appearance and Reality No access
3. §8. Thrasymachus and the City of Good Men Only No access
4. §9. Glaucon's Challenge to Socrates No access
5. §10. The Challenge of Adeimantus to Plato No access
1. §11. Introduction to Methodology No access
2. §12. Methodology II: Hypotheses No access
3. §13. Methodology III: Images No access
4. §14. Looking Out for Number One No access
5. §15. Making Friends with Thrasymachus No access
1. §16. The Speech to the Guardians No access
2. §17. Justice and the Good on the Divided Line No access
3. §18. The Idea of the Good and Plato's Theory of Forms No access
4. §19. An Intellectual History of the Return No access
5. §20. Whistling a Tune on the Way Down No access
1. §21. 434d1-435a4 No access
2. §22. Two Jobs for One Man: Beyond the Tripartite Soul No access
3. §23. The Third Wave of Paradox No access
4. §24. Plato's Letters No access
5. §25. Untimely Meditations on the Idea of Justice No access
1. §26. Genetic Fictions No access
2. §27. The Equality of the Sexes No access
3. §28. Higher Education: Why the Good is not the One No access
4. §29. Reading Order Revisited No access
5. §30. The Age of Heroes No access
1. §31. The Sewer of Romulus No access
2. §32. The Perfectly Bearable Lightness of Being No access
3. §33. Coming Up and Going Down No access
4. §34. Plato the Imitator No access
5. §35. Odysseus or Achilles? No access
Bibliography No access Pages 401 - 424
Index No access Pages 425 - 470
Index verborum No access Pages 471 - 474
Index locorum No access Pages 475 - 488
About the Author No access Pages 489 - 1