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Aristotle on the necessity of public education

Randall Curren argues that Aristotle's Politics has languished in the shadow cast by Plato's Republic and he seeks to reinvigorate the scholarship on what he considers a masterpiece of moral and educational theory
Print Book, English, ©2000
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2000
History
xv, 279 pages ; 24 cm
9780847696727, 9780847696734, 0847696723, 0847696731
45338480
Greek paideia and socratic principles
The arguments of Plato
Groundwork for an interpretation of politics VIII. 1
Why education is important
Why education should be public and the same for all
Education and the foundation of justice
Justice and the substance of common care