[ Platon et l’Education par la Fiction ]
Volume 75, Issue 2, November 2024, Pages 204–213
Mustapha Charfaoui1
1 Centre d’études Doctorales «Homme - Société - Éducation», Faculté des sciences de l’Education, Université Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: French
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In this study which focuses on the theme of education, we propose to take a detour into the distant times of Greek Antiquity, to question ourselves and to educate ourselves. If we must justify such a digression in time, the reason is that the merit of this people lies, among other things, in their restoration of a close link between humanity and Education. The ideal that they envisaged during the golden age is at the origin of humanism in the sense that humanity is seen as a value. Let us not forget that Renaissance humanism is characterized by a return to ancient sources following the equation of equivalence between education and humanism. Following the belief that humanity is based on the full development of man’s faculties, Plato seems to be one of the scholars who reflected on the multiple ways, through multiple voices, of becoming a Man: erudition, wisdom, physical beauty, virtue, temperance, knowledge etc. We suggest drawing a thread from the fabric of this complex theme. It is a question of putting into perspective the Platonic debate on education via poems, fables... This subject is part of the famous crusade that Platonic philosophy leads against art and which is often read and treated in a manner univocal and sterile, this is why we will focus not only on the affinities of the philosopher’s analysis but also on the gray areas which make the Platonic point of view a fruitful thought in the educational field.
Author Keywords: Platonic education, poems, mimetic contagion, fiction, simulation, alienating power.
Volume 75, Issue 2, November 2024, Pages 204–213
Mustapha Charfaoui1
1 Centre d’études Doctorales «Homme - Société - Éducation», Faculté des sciences de l’Education, Université Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In this study which focuses on the theme of education, we propose to take a detour into the distant times of Greek Antiquity, to question ourselves and to educate ourselves. If we must justify such a digression in time, the reason is that the merit of this people lies, among other things, in their restoration of a close link between humanity and Education. The ideal that they envisaged during the golden age is at the origin of humanism in the sense that humanity is seen as a value. Let us not forget that Renaissance humanism is characterized by a return to ancient sources following the equation of equivalence between education and humanism. Following the belief that humanity is based on the full development of man’s faculties, Plato seems to be one of the scholars who reflected on the multiple ways, through multiple voices, of becoming a Man: erudition, wisdom, physical beauty, virtue, temperance, knowledge etc. We suggest drawing a thread from the fabric of this complex theme. It is a question of putting into perspective the Platonic debate on education via poems, fables... This subject is part of the famous crusade that Platonic philosophy leads against art and which is often read and treated in a manner univocal and sterile, this is why we will focus not only on the affinities of the philosopher’s analysis but also on the gray areas which make the Platonic point of view a fruitful thought in the educational field.
Author Keywords: Platonic education, poems, mimetic contagion, fiction, simulation, alienating power.
Abstract: (french)
Dans cette étude qui s’intéresse au thème de l’éducation, nous proposons de faire un détour dans les temps lointains de l’Antiquité grecque, de nous interroger et de nous instruire. Si nous devons justifier une telle digression dans le temps, la raison en est que le mérite de ce peuple réside, entre autres, dans leur restauration d’un lien étroit entre humanité et Education. L’idéal qu’ils ont envisagé lors de l’âge d’or est à l’origine de l’humanisme au sens où l’humanité est vue comme valeur. N’oublions pas que l’humanisme de la Renaissance est caractérisé par un retour aux sources antiques suivant l’équation de l’équivalence entre éducation et humanisme. Suivant la croyance que l’humanité repose sur le plein épanouissement des facultés de l’homme, Platon semble bien être l’un des savants ayant réfléchi aux multiples voies, par multiples voix, de devenir Homme: l’érudition, la sagesse, la beauté physique, la vertu, la tempérance, le savoir etc. Nous suggérons de tirer un fil de l’étoffe de cette thématique complexe. Il s’agit de mettre en perspective le débat platonicien de l’éducation via les poèmes, les fables...Ce sujet fait partie de la fameuse croisade que mène la philosophie platonicienne contre l’art et qui est souvent lue et traitée d’une manière univoque et stérile, c’est pourquoi nous mettrons le point non seulement sur les affinités de l’analyse du philosophe mais aussi sur les zones d’ombre qui font du point de vue platonicien une pensée féconde dans le domaine éducatif.
Author Keywords: éducation platonicienne, les poèmes, contagion mimétique, fiction, simulation, pouvoir aliénant.
How to Cite this Article
Mustapha Charfaoui, “Plato and Education through Fiction,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 204–213, November 2024.
