The Legacy of Isocrates and a Platonic Alternative

James Muir is Professor of Philosophy at University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Introduction

Part 1: Isocrates’ Idea of the Nature and Value of Education

Chapter 1: Isocrates and the history of education: educationists vs. everyone else

Chapter 2: The Isocratic Idea of the Nature and Value of Education

Part 2: The Historical Transmission and Evolution of the Isocratic Idea of Education

Ch. 3: The Isocratic Idea: Rome to the Early Middle Ages

Ch. 4: The Isocratic Idea in the Middle Ages

Ch. 5: The Isocratic Idea in Renaissance Humanism

Ch. 6: Education and Modern Political Philosophy

Part 3: Critique of the Isocratic Idea and Outline of the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative

Ch. 7: The Inadequacy of the Isocratic Idea and DCD Method

Ch. 8: the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative I: Normative Method and Education

Ch. 9: the Parmenidean-Platonic Alternative II: an Outline of Educational Practice

Conclusion

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