A Plan for Teaching Plato's REPUBLIC

A Plan for Teaching Plato's REPUBLIC

Andrew Zwerneman Andrew Zwerneman

Andrew Zwerneman

Cana Academy President/HISTORY250 Narrator

发布日期: 2021年1月28日
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Cana Academy is proud to announce the arrival of our latest publication—a comprehensive guide on how to lead a seminar on Plato's REPUBLIC.

It can be daunting to teach this book. Its size, the complexity of the text's structure, and the difficulty of tackling questions about justice and happiness, education, censorship, the order of the soul and what can foment its disorder, the order of the city and its devolution to tyranny—all this can appear overwhelming. The guide makes it all clear and manageable. Everything a teacher needs to guide students through this classic among classics is provided:

  • Important introductory advice for the teacher
  • A biography of Plato
  • An explanation of the dialogue form
  • A biography of Socrates
  • Discussion questions for each book, introduced by commentary to direct the teacher to important issues and to keep track of the whole
  • Broader questions (more than 30) suitable for closing discussions and essay assignments
  • A selected bibliography
  • Appendices that include a map of the Piraeus; Herodotus’ account of Gyges; an illustration of the cave allegory; and two charts for the regime of the city and the regime of the corresponding soul  

Get a good glimpse of the guide's quality and usefulness with the Free Preview at the bottom of this link.

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