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Author(s): A. K. Cotton
ISBN(s): 9780199684052, 0199684057
Edition: 1
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Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199684057 
ISBN 13: 9780199684052
Author: AK Cotton

In this volume, Cotton examines Plato’s ideas about education and learning. With a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in developing philosophical understanding, the book argues that a reader’s experience can be parallel in kind and value to that of the interlocutors we see conversing in the dialogues, in constituting learning. The study suggests that, just as Socratic conversation acts as a context for the interlocutors development of dialectical virtues, so the corpus of Plato’s works presents an arena for readers to progress through the different stages of learning, providing them with the stimuli appropriate to their philosophical advancement at each point and encouraging them to take increasing responsibility for their own learning. Accordingly, the study proposes that the shape of the corpus, and the changes we observe between early, middle, and late dialogues, are best interpreted with reference to the changing needs of receivers at different stages of their philosophical development. Individual chapters focus on characterization, argumentation, structure and unity, plot, and myth as means by which the dialogues encourage their readers to engage in this productive and distinctive way.

Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader 1st Table of contents:

Part I
1: Reading Plato’s Dialogues
1.1. CONVERSING AND READING
1.2. READING AS LEARNING
1.3. PLATO’S DIALOGUES: READ OR PERFORMED?
2: Readers and Interlocutors
2.1. THE PRISONER’S ASCENT FROM THE CAVE: A PARADIGM FOR LEARNING
2.2. A DEMANDING TYPE OF READING
2.3. READERS AND INTERLOCUTORS
2.4. DEVELOPING A GENERIC IDENTITY
2.5. PLATO’S CORPUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE READER
3: Developing the Virtues of Dialectic: A Model for Reading
3.1. ‘MIDDLE’ AND ‘LATE’ WORKS: A PARADIGM SHIFT?
3.2. INTERLOCUTORS IN ‘EARLY’ DIALOGUES
3.3. INTERLOCUTORS IN ‘MIDDLE’ DIALOGUES
3.4. INTERLOCUTORS IN ‘LATE’ DIALOGUES
3.5. PROGRESS AND VIRTUE
3.6. LEARNING AMONG READERS
Part II
4: Characterization: A Route into Interpretation?
4.1. SOCRATES AND ALCIBIADES
4.2. CHARACTER: A ROUTE INTO INTERPRETATION?
4.3. CHARACTERS AS ROLE MODELS?
4.4. CHARACTER, REFLECTION, AND CONSTRUCTION
4.5. THE CHALLENGE OF CHARACTER: A FUNCTIONAL VIEW
4.6. SOCRATES: A DOMINANT CHARACTER
4.7. CHARACTERIZATION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF READING
4.8. ‘LATER’ DIALOGUES: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHARACTER
5: Argumentation: A Descent into Didactic Dialectic?
5.1. AUTHORITIES ON WISDOM
5.2. A DESCENT INTO DIDACTIC DIALECTIC?
5.3. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
5.4. AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: ARGUMENTS AND THEIR PRESENTATION
5.5. ‘EARLY’ ARGUMENTS
5.6. ‘MIDDLE’ ARGUMENTS
5.7. ‘LATE’ ARGUMENTS
5.8. TOWARDS INDEPENDENT READERS AND LEARNERS
6: Structure and Unity: Challenging the Reader
6.1. SEARCHING FOR UNITY
6.2. STRUCTURE AND UNITY: POSSIBLE APPROACHES
6.3. COMMON STRUCTURAL PATTERNS
6.3.1. Dead ends and pauses
6.3.2. Changes in direction
6.3.3. Non-directed structure
6.3.4. Disparate treatment of themes
6.3.5. Iterative structure
6.3.6. Length, proportion, and digression
6.4. STRUCTURAL PATTERNS AND THE READER
6.5. STRUCTURE, UNITY, AND ‘LIVING’ DISCOURSE
7: Plot and Action: Process vs. Resolution
7.1. PLATO’S DIALOGUES: CLASSICAL PLOT?
7.2. UNCLASSICAL PLOT: PROLIFERATION, FRAGMENTATION, AND IRRESOLUTION
7.3. LACHES
7.4. REPUBLIC
7.5. SOPHIST
7.6. RESOLUTION VS. REPETITION: GETTING CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
8: Reading, Learning, and Acting: Becoming Active Receivers
8.1. THE READER’S PROGRESS
8.2. DIALECTICAL VIRTUE, CIVIC VIRTUE
8.3. THE MYTH OF PHAEDO: FROM READING TO ACTING

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