William H. F. Altman

Plato the Teacher (eBook, ePUB)

The Crisis of the Republic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739171394
• Artikelnr.: 45689204

Autorenporträt

William H. F. Altman, an independent scholar now living in Brazil, is a retired public high school teacher with more than thirty years experience teaching history, Latin, and the humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

An Introduction to Plato's Republic: Inside and Outside the Text 1
Part 1 The First Words of Plato's ???? te?/a
Chapter 1: ?at?ß??
Chapter 2: ????
Chapter 3: µet? G?a??????
Chapter 4: µet? G?a??????
Chapter 5: t?? ???st????
Part 2 Challenges
Chapter 6: Cephalus and the Meaning of Life
Chapter 7: Polemarchus Meets Appearance and Reality
Chapter 8: Thrasymachus and the City of Good Men Only
Chapter 9: Glaucon's Challenge to Socrates
Chapter 10: The Challenge of Adeimantus to Plato
Part 3 The Shorter Way
Chapter 11: Introduction to Methodology
Chapter 12: Methodology II: Hypotheses
Chapter 13: Methodology III: Images
Chapter 14: Looking Out for Number One
Chapter 15: Making Friends with Thrasymachus
Part 4 The Longer Way
Chapter 16: The Speech to the Guardians
Chapter 17: Justice and the Good on the Divided Line
Chapter 18: The Idea of the Good and Plato's Theory of Forms
Chapter 19: An Intellectual History of the Return
Chapter 20: Whistling a Tune on the Way Down
Part 5 The Firestick