Plato on Education and Art

Rachana Kamtekar

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195182903.003.0014

Plato on Education and Art

Rachana Kamtekar

Philosophy

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The article resonates Plato's ideas on education and art. In the Apology, Socrates describes his life's mission of practicing philosophy as aimed at getting the Athenians to care for virtue; in the Gorgias, Plato claims that happiness depends entirely on education and justice; in the Protagoras and the Meno, he puzzles about whether virtue is teachable or how else it might be acquired; in the Phaedrus, he explains that teaching and persuading require knowledge of the soul and its powers, which requires knowledge of what objects the soul may act on and be acted on by which, in turn, requires knowledge of nature. The article also looks at musical and gymnastic education's effects on the soul using images from metallurgy and dyeing wool, saying that prerational souls are "most malleable and take on any pattern one wishes to impress on them.".

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Plato
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199892044
ISBN (Print)	9780195182903
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195182903.003.0014
State	Published - Sep 2 2009

Keywords

Art
Education
Justice
Knowledge
Metallurgy
Plato
Power
Practicing philosophy
Prerational souls
Soul

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Arts and Humanities

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