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Question 2



Question 2

This Platonic image of education as the awakening of the factual self can effortlessly be acclimatized to the desires of the left. The left brushes aside Platonic ascetism and exalts Socratic social criticism. It recognises the obstacles to flexibility that education should overwhelm not with the passions or with sin but with conference and prejudice. What the right calls 'overcoming the passions', the left calls 'stifling wholesome animal instincts'(Newell 2007). What the right conceives of as the triumph of cause, the left recounts as the triumph of acculturation acculturation engineered by the forces that be. What the ...