Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader

Cotton examines Plato's ideas about education and learning, with a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in approaching philosophical understanding.

List of contents

• Preface


• Abbreviations


• Part I


• 1: Reading Plato's Dialogues


• 2: Readers and Interlocutors


• 3: Developing the Virtues of Dialectic: A Model for Reading


• Part II


• 4: Characterization: A Route into Interpretation?


• 5: Argumentation: A Descent into Didactic Dialectic?


• 6: Structure and Unity: Challenging the Reader


• 7: Plot and Action: Process vs. Resolution


• 8: Reading, Learning, and Acting: Becoming Active Receivers


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Anne K. Cotton teaches Classics at Magdalen College School in Oxford, where she is also Head of Upper School.

Summary

Cotton examines Plato's ideas about education and learning, with a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in approaching philosophical understanding.

Additional text

clearly structured, lucidly written, and ... convincingly argued ... Cotton opens up many interesting new paths for further exploration.

Product details

• Authors: A. K. Cotton, A. K. (Classics Teacher At Magdalen Colleg Cotton, A. K. (Classics Teacher at Magdalen College School Cotton, Cotton A. K.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199684052
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968405-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500