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Athens as Educator

Reflections on
Ignorance and Formative Justice
in Classical Experience

Table of Contents
1   Ignorance &
      Formative Justice 1
 • Study
Part I   Inventing Athens Study
2   Homer's Winged Words Study
3   Cults & Religion Study
4   The Poetry of Praise Study
5   Politics of Participation Study
6   Thought and the Polis Study
7   Building the Civic Arts Study
8   The Athenian Imaginary Study
9   Attic Drama Study
10   Sophistry & Rhetoric Study
11   Socrates Study
12   The Crucible of History Study
Part II   Sublimating Athens Study
13   Socratic Dialogs Study
14   Isocrates Study
15-20   Plato Study
  15  Republic, 1-2 Study
  16  Republic, 3-5 Study
  17  Republic, 5-7 Study
  18  Republic, 8-10 Study
  19  Statesman Study
  20  Laws Study
21-25   Aristotle Study
  21  Rhetoric Study
  22  Nicomachean Ethics, 1-5 Study
  23  Nicomachean Ethics, 6-10 Study
  24  Politics, 1-4 Study
  25  Politics, 5-8 Study
26   Demosthenes Study
27   Stoics, Epicureans,
      & Skeptics
Study
19   Dénouement Study
28   Ignorance &
      Formative Justice 2
Study
Part III   Tools and Resources Study
a   Chronology Study
b   Glossary Study
c   Bibliographies Study
a utopic studio, first series

Athens as Educator

Reflections on Ignorance and Formative Justice in Classical Experience


He who would teach us a truth should situate us so that we will discover it ourselves.
José Ortega y Gassett

Plato 1 – Republic, Book 1-2

Discussion Reading:

  • Plato. The Republic. Book I-III:412b.
    The Republic (G. R. F. Ferrari, ed. Tom Griffith, trans. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. 1-104.

Supplementary Reading:

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