The Meaning Of Educational Prototype In Plato's Dialogue

The "Allegory of the Cave" in The Republic by Plato,says education defined as the turn of the soul is to make people ' s soul transcend from the perceptual world to rational world,with reason,grasping the concept and seeing the good idea.The highest education is the dialectics,and to achieve it is relying on talks,which conduct the human' s soul to the rational world.The narration in his The Republic,Plato's all thinking is in his dialogue,Plato never has the so-called works.As Confucius's thought is also not in his work,but in conversation between the master and his disciples,who then copied down his talk,compiled the analects with those dialogue,is what we know the source of Confucius thought.The differences existed in contemporary education and the axial age education is the prototype of the education is the dialogue instead of the works.Prototype of the education is not limited or constrained in a fixed place;of course,there will be no provisions of the syllabus in advance.Prototype of education is the dialogue,situation of activity,and the life education scene:walking,symposium,trial,or even prison conversation,can become the most profound educational situation.Such as Socrates ' s talking about rhetoric theory and the spirit of soul wagons theory,the most vivid manifestation is as he and a young friend Phaedrus walk outside,text is Phaedrus;He and his friends have a all-night long conversation——and a forced conversation,although we can not say Socrates is unhappy,eventually left the human heyday,far-reaching dialog in the Republic.His Allegory of Cave manifested in the dialogue;Even if the Athenians give Socrates trial,Socrates defended himself,saying for man,the unexamined life is,indeed,not worth living,which became the declaration of human ' s reason.He also said to judge:"The hour of departure has arrived,and we go our ways-I to die,and you to live.Which is better God only knows." This text appeared in the text of Apology By Plato;Socrates theories about the immortality of the soul,the most vivid manifestation,was happen to him in a prison,when he is dying and talk to friends and disciples,the text is Phaedo.Socrates talk about dialectics,the idea(form)of beauty,Eros,rational and irrational,idea and virtue,the most vivid manifestation exactly happened when he and the ancient Greek elite friends were having a banquet at that time,we are able to read the dialogue text in Symposium.Today,we still feel like our soul hit by an electric shock,or just like the conversation in Phaedrus,our soul is like a flying horse in the sky,to appreciate the real beauty and the true good.My paper mainly takes Symposium as a prototype of Socrates' dialogue education to illustrate.Philosophy dialogue of Plato is a specialized language,called as rhetoric,through the rhetorical means,two men can communicate with their soul,so as to convey the general himself to another.Eventually the union of two souls is the meeting and communication on rationality;rationality is the root of education.Only rational can guide people's soul,rise up from opinion to knowledge.Philosophical dialogues rely on the philosophy of rhetoric,to guide people's soul attaining the state of dialectics.So complete the prototype of education is a man' s rational way of life,review the life of the world,and have a dialogue with his own soul,to make it rise to a higher ladder,eventually into a world of the good.