Contributions

  • Poulakos, Takis. - Contributor
  • Depew, David J., 1942- - Contributor

Publication

2004 - University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas

Language

English

Word Count

69,250 words, Guess

Page Count

277 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads600910
  • LibraryThing2558225

Classifications

  • DDC885/.01
  • LCCPA4218 .I746 2004

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.

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  • Isocrates and civic educationUniversity of Texas Press2004-01-01

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