ISSN:
1573-191X
Keywords:
public education
;
Aristotle
;
education and law
;
citizenship education
;
political stability
;
virtue
;
happiness
;
friendship
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 II: Sections IV–VII examine the arguments for the first of the two conclusions which Aristotle advances in VIII. 1, namely that education is important enough to merit the legislator's attention. It is shown, through a development of links between Politics V and the arguments of VIII. 1, that Aristotle's two arguments for this conclusion are calculated to appeal to two distinct subgroups within his intended audience, those who would be moved by a desire to promote the common good, and those who could only be counted on to desire the preservation of their own rule.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00468836
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