ISSN:
1573-191X
Keywords:
public education
;
Aristotle
;
education and law
;
Plato
;
Greek education
;
politics
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Education
Notes:
Abstract This paper develops an interpretation and analysis of the arguments for public education which open Book VIII of Aristotle's Politics, drawing on both the wider Aristotelian corpus and on examination of continuities with Plato's Laws. Part I: The paper opens with the question of why Aristotle would say that no one will doubt that education should be the concern of the legislator, and Sections I–III identify the nature of his enterprise in the Politics, the audience he wishes to address, the conclusions he seeks to establish in VIII. 1, and what public education would amount to for him. An important conclusion reached is that the first of Aristotle's two conclusions in VIII.1 has been routinely misidentified.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00376395
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