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- Moral Education in the 21st Century
- Moral Education in the 21st Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Why Does Moral Education Matter in the 21st Century?
- Part I Historical Insights for Contemporary Moral Education
- Chapter 2 Plato’s Significance for Moral Education
- Chapter 3 Neo-Aristotelianism and Moral Education
- Chapter 4 Neoskepticism and Moral Education
- Chapter 5 Nietzsche and Moral Education
- Chapter 6 Neo-Kantianism and Moral Education
- Part II New Approaches to Moral Education
- Part III Responses to Contemporary Moral Problems
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Plato’s Significance for Moral Education
from Part I - Historical Insights for Contemporary Moral Education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2023
- Moral Education in the 21st Century
- Moral Education in the 21st Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Why Does Moral Education Matter in the 21st Century?
- Part I Historical Insights for Contemporary Moral Education
- Chapter 2 Plato’s Significance for Moral Education
- Chapter 3 Neo-Aristotelianism and Moral Education
- Chapter 4 Neoskepticism and Moral Education
- Chapter 5 Nietzsche and Moral Education
- Chapter 6 Neo-Kantianism and Moral Education
- Part II New Approaches to Moral Education
- Part III Responses to Contemporary Moral Problems
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, I offer some of the reasons to think that Plato has a substantial contribution to make to contemporary thinking about moral education. To allow a sense of how wide the range of reasons is, I start by listing ten miscellaneous reasons that one can compellingly offer, some of which scholars have offered. Then I present my preferred reason, which involves a way of approaching Plato that is new and unorthodox. When you approach Plato this way, you don’t try to interpret him correctly. Instead, you use his writings simply as a tool for theorizing, and what you theorize about is how best to carry out the Socratic project of leading other people to self-examination.
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- Moral Education in the 21st Century , pp. 9 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023