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Roberto:
The status of the "Socratic" in philosophy and teaching is widely
disputed. My Socrates is strange enough to include Foucault as a
Socratic figure. See Alexander Nehamas, "The Art of Living: Socratic
Reflections from Plato to Foucault" for one broadened vision of Socratic
inquiry.
I am not sure where Socrates aimed his penis. The Platonic portrait of
him in the "Symposium" paints a response to the beautiful Alcibiades
that "privileges" the soul to the point of exclusion.
Larry
roberto echen wrote:
> Larry W. Chappell wrote:
>
> > Philosophy begins with pedophilia. Maybe it ends there too.
>
> I know. Apologies if anyone didn't like the joke.
>
> > Socrates
> > spent all his days in the agora with young men. Education in Athens
> was
> > intimately connected with courting young boys. Socrtaes invented a
> new,
> > more subtle pedophilia that we still practice in our institutions
> today.
> > We have adopted his model for corrupting youth.
> >
> > As a teacher, I am a fairly typical Socratic progeny.
>
> About teaching (i am one too, although not of english :-)): socratic
> methodology is related to socratic aims and socratic conception of
> Being. Shouldn't we try to find another methods and strategies, or do
> you think those methods are compatible with contemporary thought? It
> really concerns me.
>
> > I have no interest
> > in their bodies,
>
> Socrates had, although he privileged souls.
> Regards
> Roberto
>
> >
>
>
> --
> Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the gratest
> fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -Charles Caleb
> Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)
>
>
>
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Roberto:
<p>The status of the "Socratic" in philosophy and teaching is widely disputed.
My Socrates is strange enough to include Foucault as a Socratic figure.
See Alexander Nehamas, "The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato
to Foucault" for one broadened vision of Socratic inquiry.
<p>I am not sure where Socrates aimed his penis. The Platonic portrait
of him in the "Symposium" paints a response to the beautiful Alcibiades
that "privileges" the soul to the point of exclusion.
<p>Larry
<p>roberto echen wrote:
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<pre WRAP>Larry W. Chappell wrote:
> Philosophy begins with pedophilia. Maybe it ends there too.
I know. Apologies if anyone didn't like the joke.
> Socrates
> spent all his days in the agora with young men. Education in Athens was
> intimately connected with courting young boys. Socrtaes invented a new,
> more subtle pedophilia that we still practice in our institutions today.
> We have adopted his model for corrupting youth.
>
> As a teacher, I am a fairly typical Socratic progeny.
About teaching (i am one too, although not of english :-)): socratic
methodology is related to socratic aims and socratic conception of
Being. Shouldn't we try to find another methods and strategies, or do
you think those methods are compatible with contemporary thought? It
really concerns me.
> I have no interest
> in their bodies,
Socrates had, although he privileged souls.
Regards
Roberto
>
--
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the gratest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)
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