Platonic Dialectics and Education

Abstract

Education in the light of Platonic philosophy is seen as establishing the natural order of the soul, or forming a character by basing it on what is eternal and perfect. The educational effort constitutes a deep insight info the spiritual and moral destiny of a human. In the face of contemporary intellectual attitudes, thinking about education manifests itself in determining effective methods and powerful means to satisfy arbitrary, incommensurable and changeable goals that do not exceed their historical-empirical conditioning. Intellectual attractiveness and the diversity of theoretical systems with logically constructed reasons is seen as an obvious, necessary and unproblematic answer to the question about education. However, that answer will be contested in this work.