Isocrates and civic education
By: edited by Takis Poulakos and David Depew.
Contributors: Poulakos, Takis.; Depew, David J., 1942-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Isocrates -- Political and social views; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism; Education, Greek -- Greece -- Athens; Education, Ancient; Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life
Description: "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 and in comparison to the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary views about civic education. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.