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13 SES 03 B, Critical Thinking, Freedom in the Over-Educated Society
Long Paper Session
Contribution
In order to explore some aspects of critical thinking I here put Alain Badiou’s conceptual apparatus into play in a reading of Plato’s Meno. The inspiration for doing so is Badiou’s “contemporary Platonism” and his fresh translation of Plato’s Republic. My ambition is not to present a scholarly and somewhat anachronistic interpretation of Plato. But rather to let Plato’s Meno face the conceptual apparatus of Badiou in order to reconsider our modes of thought of critical thinking. In other words, I here use the meeting between Plato’s dialogue and Badiou’s logic as a tool to explore and discuss some metaphors of critical thinking in regards to contemporary discourses on education:
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References
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