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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828867703321

Autore

Eisele Thomas D. <1948->

Titolo

Bitter knowledge : learning Socratic lessons of disillusion and renewal / / Thomas D. Eisele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-07863-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

183/.2

Soggetti

Questioning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Participating in disillusion and renewal -- Who can teach us? And what can they teach us? Socrates recounts his conversations in the Protagoras -- The poverty of Socratic questioning : asking and answering in the Meno -- The labor of Socratic inquiry : learning in the Theaetetus to give an account of oneself -- Learning to find ourselves at a loss : how does philosophy begin? -- Epilogue: Realities of the classroom.

Sommario/riassunto

Bitter Knowledge examines the Socratic method in three fundamental Platonic dialogues, Protagoras, Meno, and Theaetetus, contending that the method is really a cyclical one of disillusionment and renewal.