In the Socratic Tradition

Download or read book In the Socratic Tradition written by Tziporah Kasachkoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven essays explore how to teach a variety of subjects in philosophy. General topics such as teaching introductory courses, improving students' comprehension of philosophy texts, and improving student papers are examined. Specific fields such as the study of ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy are accorded separate sections, and strategies for explaining specific philosophers, including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche, are discussed. All of the papers in this volume appeared (in the same or in an earlier version) in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy between 1986 and 1994. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR