Civic virtue and the type of education that produces publicly
minded citizens became a topic of debate in American political
discourse of the 1980s, as it once was among the intelligentsia of
Classical Athens. Conservatives such as former National Endowment
for the Humanities chairman William Bennett and his successor Lynn
Cheney held up the Greek philosopher Aristotle as the model of a
public-spirited, virtue-centered civic educator. But according to
the contributors in this volume, a truer model, both in his own
time and for ours, is Isocrates, one of the preeminent intellectual
figures in Greece during the fourth century B.C.
In this volume, ten leading scholars of Classics, rhetoric, and
philosophy offer a pathfinding interdisciplinary study of Isocrates
as a civic educator. Their essays are grouped into sections that
investigate Isocrates' program in civic education in general (J.
Ober, T. Poulakos) and in comparison to the Sophists (J. Poulakos,
E. Haskins), Plato (D. Konstan, K. Morgan), Aristotle (D. Depew, E.
Garver), and contemporary views about civic education (R. Hariman,
M. Leff). The contributors show that Isocrates' rhetorical
innovations carved out a deliberative process that attached moral
choices to political questions and addressed ethical concerns as
they could be realized concretely. His notions of civic education
thus created perspectives that, unlike the elitism of Aristotle,
could be used to strengthen democracy.
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