Socrates
Socrates
Socrates is the figure every later philosopher of education is responding to. He wrote nothing, taught for free in the Athenian marketplace, and was executed at seventy. What survives is a set of theories his students wrote down. This chapter walks through those theories one by one.
His life and trial, the unexamined-life claim, and his definition of the goal of education as knowing what you do not know
His theory of value (trivial, important, ultimate knowledge) and theory of knowledge (ordinary vs definitional; knowledge and virtue)
The inner self as divine, ignorance as the root of moral evil, and learning as seeking truth through questioning
His theory of transmission: who should teach, leading questions over lectures, and the marketplace as classroom
The purpose of society, equal education for women and the poor, and consensus reached only through the search for truth
His three influential students, utilitarianism, Karl Jaspers’ paradigmatic individual, and Foucault’s care of the self
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