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Plato's Theaetetus : What to do with an Honours Student
Author(s) -
Rozema D.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00088
Subject(s) - socrates , philosophy , epistemology , state (computer science) , reflexive pronoun , algorithm , computer science
Socrate's dialogue with the young student, Theaetetus, is a case of the highest form of education: a ‘divine service’ to the state of Athens, to Theaetetus' family and friends, and to Theaetetus himself. It is less a means for Socrates (or Plato) to present his theory of knowledge than a sort of ‘noble lie’ designed and intended by Socrates to keep Theaetetus both appropriately humble and hungry for wisdom. The progress of the dialogue is an allegory of moral education, a picturing of what Aristotle later laid out more pedantically in the Nicomachean Ethics .