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Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic (Hardcover)
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Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic (Hardcover)
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Nicholas D. Smith presents an original interpretation of the
Republic, considering it to be a book about knowledge and
education. Over the course of Summoning Knowledge in Plato's
Republic, he argues for four main theses. Firstly, the Republic is
not just a work that has a lot to say about education; it is a book
that depicts Socrates as attempting to engage his interlocutors in
such a way as to help to educate them and also engages us, the
readers, in a way that helps to educate us. Secondly, Plato does
not suppose that education, properly understood, should have as its
primary aim putting knowledge into souls that do not already have
it. Instead, the education Plato discusses, represents occurring
between Socrates and his interlocutors, and hopes to achieve in his
readers is one that aims to arouse the power of knowledge in us and
then to begin to train that power always to engage with what is
more real, rather than what is less real. Thirdly, Plato's
conception of knowledge is not the one typically presented in
contemporary epistemology. It is, rather, the power of
conceptualization by the use of exemplars. And finally, Plato
engages this power of knowledge in the Republic in a way he
represents as only a kind of second-best way to engage knowledge -
and not as the best way, which would be dialectic. Instead, Plato
uses images that summon the power of knowledge to begin the process
by which the power may become fully realized.
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