Explicitações da paideia isócratica: o contra-sofistas

Abstract

This dissertation presents a mapping of the isocratic paideia with specific explanations of the life and magisterium of Isocrates in the period 436-338 b.C. We describe Isocrates as an Athenian author who elaborated conceptions and forms of paideia with political purposes called by him as philosophy. We ordered the mapping of isocratic paideia using excerpts from its main speeches, highlighting the 22 points of its manifesto Against the Sophists. Through him we describe his conception of the master and the disciple, of eloquence, of the rhetorician, of the well-formed man and of philosophy, which today could be interpreted as “deliberative educational practices”, highlighting the defense of his academy as the only one to deserve the title of philosophy and inserting the most important principles of his paideia listed and chosen in relation to what we currently call “pedagogical methods”