Plato's Socrates as Educator(English, Paperback, Scott Gary Alan)

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Plato's Socrates as Educator(English, Paperback, Scott Gary Alan) is written by Scott Gary Alan and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791447243 (ISBN 10) and 9780791447246 (ISBN 13).

Examines and evaluates Socrates' role as an educator in Plato's dialogues. Despite his ceaseless efforts to purge his fellow citizens of their unfounded opinions and to bring them to care for what he believes to be the most important things, Plato's Socrates rarely succeeds in his pedagogical project with the characters he encounters. This is in striking contrast to the historical Socrates, who spawned the careers of Plato, Xenophon, and other authors of Socratic dialogues. Through an examination of Socratic pedagogy under its most propitious conditions, focusing on a narrow class of dialogues featuring Lysis and Alcibiades, this book answers the question: "why does Plato portray his divinely appointed gadfly as such a dramatic failure?"