Author: Jaeger, Werner
Title: Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture; Volume II; In Search of the Divine Centre
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 1943. orig.cloth. 22x15cm, xvi,442 pp. Soem discolorations to flyleaves. In a rubbed and faded dustwrapper.. Rubbed. Some spotting & stains to binding. Good. dustwrapper ¶ Translated from the German Manuscript by Gilbert Highet. Contents: In Search of the Divine Centre: The Fourth Century; The Memory of Socrates; Plato & Posterity; Plato's Smaller Socratic Dialogues: The Problem of Areté; "Protagoras":Sophistic or Socratic Paideia?; "Gorgias": The Educator as Statesman; "Meno": The New knowledge; "The Symposium": Eros; "The Republoc": Introduction; The Problem of Justice Leads to the Ideal State; Reform of the Old Paideia; Criticism of "Musical" Education; The Position of Education in the Perfectly Just State; The Education of Women & Children; Breeding & Education of the Elite; Military Training & Military Law; The Republic: True Home of the Philosopher; The Paideia of the Rulers: The Divine Model: The Cave - An Image of Paideia; Paideia as Conversion; Mathematics as Propaideia; Education in Dialectic; The Philosopher's Curriculum; Types of Constitution & Types of Character; The State within Us; The Educational Value of Poetry: Paideia & Eschatology.

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