Teaching Socrates to First-year Philosophy Students in Iran, Based on Plato's Euthyphro
Is it possible to teach philosophy to first-year philosophy students in a way similar to the one Socrates used to teach his interlocutors in the early dialogues? Socrates conducted challenging discussions in the agora of Athens; he began with examining everyday routine concepts, subjected his interl...
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| author | Maryam Forghani Sofia A Koutlaki |
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| description | Is it possible to teach philosophy to first-year philosophy students in a way similar to the one Socrates used to teach his interlocutors in the early dialogues? Socrates conducted challenging discussions in the agora of Athens; he began with examining everyday routine concepts, subjected his interlocutors to scrutiny—ἒλεγχος— showed the contradictions in their thinking, and often finally arrived at both his and their ignorance. The starting point of this paper is whether is it possible to teach Socratic philosophy following the Socratic Method. Here, we defend this possibility based on our practical experience of teaching Plato's Euthyphro to first-year students. In particular, the first author taught three groups of first-year philosophy students, for three semesters—Autumn 2016, Spring and Autumn 2017—in the Department of Philosophy at ATU (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1b91b5cd2434bdb8c78d179a9a9cd822023-03-09T12:37:24ZengCambridge University PressThe Journal of Classics Teaching2058-63102018-10-0119364110.1017/S205863101800020XTeaching Socrates to First-year Philosophy Students in Iran, Based on Plato's EuthyphroMaryam ForghaniSofia A KoutlakiIs it possible to teach philosophy to first-year philosophy students in a way similar to the one Socrates used to teach his interlocutors in the early dialogues? Socrates conducted challenging discussions in the agora of Athens; he began with examining everyday routine concepts, subjected his interlocutors to scrutiny—ἒλεγχος— showed the contradictions in their thinking, and often finally arrived at both his and their ignorance. The starting point of this paper is whether is it possible to teach Socratic philosophy following the Socratic Method. Here, we defend this possibility based on our practical experience of teaching Plato's Euthyphro to first-year students. In particular, the first author taught three groups of first-year philosophy students, for three semesters—Autumn 2016, Spring and Autumn 2017—in the Department of Philosophy at ATU (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran).https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205863101800020X/type/journal_article |
| spellingShingle | Maryam Forghani Sofia A Koutlaki Teaching Socrates to First-year Philosophy Students in Iran, Based on Plato's Euthyphro The Journal of Classics Teaching |
| title | Teaching Socrates to First-year Philosophy Students in Iran, Based on Plato's Euthyphro |
| title_full | Teaching Socrates to First-year Philosophy Students in Iran, Based on Plato's Euthyphro |
| title_fullStr | Teaching Socrates to First-year Philosophy Students in Iran, Based on Plato's Euthyphro |
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| title_short | Teaching Socrates to First-year Philosophy Students in Iran, Based on Plato's Euthyphro |
| title_sort | teaching socrates to first year philosophy students in iran based on plato s euthyphro |
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