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Bitter Knowledge : Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268078638
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bitter KnowledgeDDC classification:
  • 183/.2
LOC classification:
  • B318.M48 E37 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Who Can Teach Us? And What Can They Teach Us? -- 3. The Poverty of Socratic Questioning -- 4. The Labor of Socratic Inquiry -- 5. Learning to Find Ourselves at a Loss -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Who Can Teach Us? And What Can They Teach Us? -- 3. The Poverty of Socratic Questioning -- 4. The Labor of Socratic Inquiry -- 5. Learning to Find Ourselves at a Loss -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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