Teachers of philosophy
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
teachers of philosophy · master · teachers of discourse · those who have justly earned this reputation · true and intelligent guide
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Antidosis
The legitimate instructors in discourse and philosophy whom Isocrates distinguishes from corrupt pretenders.
For when they take their pupils in hand, the physical trainers instruct their followers in the postures which have been devised for bodily contests, while the teachers of philosophy impart all the forms of discourse in which the mind expresses itself.
But I am speaking, not in behalf of all those who pretend to be able to educate the young, but in behalf of those only who have justly earned this reputation, and I think that I shall convince you that my accusers have shot very wide of the truth if only you are willing to hear me to the end.
Watching over them and training them in this manner, both the teachers of gymnastic and the teachers of discourse are able to advance their pupils to a point where they are better men and where they are stronger in their thinking or in the use of their bodies.
To Nicocles
Teachers of philosophy debate methods of soul-training but share an expectation that education yields deliberation and decision.
especially, since the teachers of philosophy, however much they debate about the proper discipline of the soul (some contending that it is through disputation, others that it is through political discussion, others that it is through other means that their disciples are to attain to greater wisdom), yet are all agreed on this, that the well-educated man must, as the result of this training in what …