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Plato's Socrates, Philosophy and Education (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
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Plato's Socrates, Philosophy and Education (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Education
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This book develops for the readers Plato's Socrates' non-formalized
"philosophical practice" of learning-through-questioning in the
company of others. In doing so, the writer confronts Plato's
Socrates, in the words of John Dewey, as the "dramatic, restless,
cooperatively inquiring philosopher" of the dialogues, whose view
of education and learning is unique: (1) It is focused on actively
pursuing a form of philosophical understanding irreducible to truth
of a propositional nature, which defies "transfer" from
practitioner to pupil; (2) It embraces the perennial
"on-the-wayness" of education and learning in that to interrogate
the virtues, or the "good life," through the practice of the
dialectic, is to continually renew the quest for a deeper
understanding of things by returning to, reevaluating and modifying
the questions originally posed regarding the "good life." Indeed
Socratic philosophy is a life of questioning those aspects of
existence that are most question-worthy; and (3) It accepts that
learning is a process guided and structured by dialectic inquiry,
and is already immanent within and possible only because of the
unfolding of the process itself, i.e., learning is not a goal that
somehow stands outside the dialectic as its end product, which
indicates erroneously that the method or practice is disposable.
For learning occurs only through continued, sustained communal
dialogue.
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