Paideia: Education in the Global Era, Volume I EDITED BY KONSTANTINE BOUDOURIS & MIKONJA KNEZEVIC
IONIA PUBLICATIONS, ATHENS 2008

The papers published in the present volume were originally presented at the 19th International Conference of Philosophy on the problem of paideia in our global age. The Conference took place in Island of Samos (Pythagorion, 15th to 21st of July 2007), the birth place of Pythagoras. The Pythagorean Philosophy School was famous of introducing new kind of paideia, consonant with the Pythagorean doctrines and views about the world and so they created a new way of life.

The Conference provided a philosophical forum for exploring the principles, values, purposes, aims and the means of paideia, and more broadly of education, nurturing, and upbringing, within the framework of the common issues and problems that all corners of the world face in the present era of globalisation. In the present collection of papers many questions are raised and discussed and important problems related to a number of issues, referring directly to the philosophy of education, are clarified. Understandably the issues examined in the framework of the dialectical aspect of the Conference are only partially represented in the texts of the published volumes.

For this reason it is advisable that the articles in the present volume should be studied in conjunction with the papers contained in the other two volumes on the concept of paideia and the philosophy of education in the global era, also published by Ionia publications (Paideia:Education in the Global era, Volume II, Ionia Publications, Athens 2008 and Παιδεία: Η εκπαίδευση στην εποχή της οικουμενικότητας, Εκδόσεις Ιωνία, Αθήνα 2008).

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.INTRODUCTION BY K. BOUDOURIS9
2.JOHN P. ANTON PAIDEIA: THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP19
3.LINDA ARDITO PERSPECTIVES ON ACADEMIC RESEARCH: CONTEXTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL ERA28
4.NASSOULA BARBARIGOU THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN NATURE AS FOUNDATION FOR INSTRUCTION AND PAIDEIA44
5.SONIA DIMITRIADIS THE MODERN IMPORT OF CLASSICAL EDUCATION59
6.DONNA DORSEY CAN AND SHOULD PAIDEIA RESIST ETHICAL RELATIVISM?67
7.VERONIQUE FOTI THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION OF PAIDEIA IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC77
8.MICHAEL HOPPMANN THE ROLE OF THE DISPUTATION IN MODERN EDUCATION88
9.ANTHONY K. JENSEN PAIDEIA AND BILDUNG: APPROPRIATIONS OF GREECE FOR PEDAGOGY IN FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE AND WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT95
10.KOSTAS KALIMTZIS NURTURING THE THUMOS 105
11.MICHELE KENNERLY CONVERSATION ON EDUCATION IN CICERO'S DE OFFICIIS110
12.CHRISTOPHER C. KIRBY EDUCATION AND AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL REBIRTH: GREEK PAIDEIA, CHINESE XUE, AND DEWEYAN GROWTH115
13.CHRISTOPHER KURFESS A SERIOUS EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS?126
14.ANASTASIOS LADIKOS PLATONIC VIEWS ON PUNISHMENT AS AN EFFICIENT TOOL OF EDUCATION134
15.JOANNIS N. MARKOPOULOS CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION TO THE SOPHISTIC THOUGHT146
16.PAVLOS MICHAELIDES HEIDEGGER ON TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MODERNITY152
17.MOHAMMAD HASAN MIRZAMOHAMMADI PLATO'S EDUCATIONAL VIEW POINTS AND THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION166
18.HORST PFEIFFLE THE FUTURE OF HUMANIST EDUCATION171
19.RICHARD L. PURTILL DIALOGUES AS A METHOD OF TEACHING PHILOSOPHY181
20.JEREMIAH REEDY THE FAILURE OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION AND THE RETURN TO CLASSICAL MODELS187
21.DEBIKA SAHA THE NEED FOR UNIVERSAL EDUCATION IN THE EMERGING AGE OF GLOBAL SOCIETY202
22.INNA SEMETSKY RESOLVING THE SOCRATIC PARADOX: A SEMIOTIC APPROACH207
23.MARY M. SNOW & RICHARD K. SNOW EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN ECOLOGICAL PAIDEIA222
24.ALEXANDROS THEODORIDIS THE ETHOS OF MORTALITY AS THE FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION238
25.ROBERT ZABOROWSKI EMOTIONS ET LIBERTE DANS LA PAIDEIA - PERSPECTIVES ANCIENNE ET MODERNE: ENTRE PLATON ET CLAPARΙDE250
INDEX OF NAMES264