The Socratic Method Today Student-Centered and Transformative Teaching in Political Science

38 Kathleen Higgins,“Post-Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed,”Nature,November 28, 2016, https://www. nature.com/news/post-truth-a- ...

Helfand, David. May 12, 2014.“Liberal Arts is the Future of Work, So Why is Canada Pushing‘Job Ready’ Skills?”Globe and Mail. Av ...

Most of us who use a Socratic method in our political theory courses aim not merely to familiarize our students with canonical t ...

prepared to do to achieve it (assuming, of course, that we will want it when we see it). And for theorists who prefer an analyti ...

Other thinkers associated with this approach include Augustine, Aquinas, Rousseau, and, partly, Marx. Contrary to those who insi ...

From this awareness of a dire or impending crisis, they draw up an indictment against their society or those who threaten the fo ...

legitimate values collide and vie with each other without being overly fearful that the bonds that make civil society possible w ...

“scientific”and/or historical account not only of their world and its values, but of their own values as well. They aim to demon ...

is the way weshouldlook at the world if we are to be saved. It is no accident nor, as is sometimes said, is it inconsistent with ...

others (who may or may not claim to be wise) conceptualize and interpret political concepts, including justice, equality, and fr ...

empiricalor knowledge-seeking question,“does every government serve merely the interest of the stronger?”may be changed to,“is i ...

Others simply saw Socrates as a bit of a pest, who would not or could not leave well enough alone. His persistent questioning ma ...

5 See Hannah Arendt,The Human Condition(Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1958); Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History(Chicago ...

Bibliography Arendt, H. 1958.The Human Condition. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Barker, Ernest. 1942.Reflections on Governm ...

Part IA (178a–181d) 1 What are Lysimachus and Melesias concerned with? Why are they concerned and why do they appeal to Laches a ...

10 What is the significance of connecting Nicias with sophistry? Why is Laches’criticism of Nicias on this front less convincing ...

Academy and College of Philadelphia 73 Achilles 25 Adeimantus 13–15, 61 Aeschylus 28 Agathon 36– 7 Alcibiades 35–43, 116, 147 Al ...

Franklin, Benjamin 70–8;Autobiography73, 75; Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania 73 Fullan, Michael 83 G ...

political science 1, 81, 90 political theory 22, 104, 152–61; analytic or critical 158–9; justice-seeking 153–6; knowledge-seeki ...

Trump, Donald 138, 146– 7 Turkle, Sherry 140 United States, or America 2, 70–8, 85, 94, 125–6, 128, 130, 154 university 2, 9, 59 ...