The papers of this volume were presented at the 19th Conference of the International Association of Greek Philosophy which was held on the island of Samos on the topic of Paideia. As in the past, participants had the opportunity to spend a week in leisure, or as the ancients would have said in schole, where they engaged as friends in dialogue between men and women, teachers and students, artists and professionals, from all corners of the world. In this way the presentations were but only a part of a larger intellectual and spiritual environment that had evolved through the common search for wisdom on this most significant topic of our era. Amongst the participants was a common sense that what passes for education in our rapidly changing world is grossly inadequate for preparing any part of the world's populations for solving the very problems that our consumer societies are generating in all facets of existence, from biological, political, to spiritual. There was a shared sense of crisis and a sense that the very activity of shaping a common logos might itself be a contribution to understanding how the concept of paideia may again gain a presence in this difficult time. What is unique in the present volumes is the open range of inquiry which is reflected in the diversity of fields, cultures and interests of the participants. This allowed participants to address a wide range of issues with differing emphases but through the unifying concept of paideia which takes the molding of the entirety of human nature¯not simply that sliver that has utility¯into account. Thus the present collection of articles is not held together by any dogma, bias, or special claim to rightness, be it of a national, religious, scientific or academic nature, but by the locus of the unifying concept of paideia and its correlate, the sanctity of human nature.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.		INTRODUCTION BY KOSTAS KALIMTZIS	9
2.	ANTONIS COUMOUNDOUROS & RONALD POLANSKY	PROGRESS IN PRACTICAL THINKING?	19
3.	JOSE CARLOS AVELINO DA SILVA	DIALECTICS AND EDUCATION	36
4.	ANDREW DOMANSKI	PAIDEIA AND PLATO'S SYSTEM OF EARLY EDUCATION	46
5.	THOMAS L. DYNNESON	THE PAIDEIA OF GLOBAL CIVISM	56
6.	CHRISTOS EVANGELIOU	PLATO'S CRITIQUE OF THE HOMERIC PAIDEIA: IN SEARCH FOR A NEW PEDAGOGIC PARADIGM	65
7.	PAUL GAFFNEY	DEEP AND WIDE: THE MEASURE OF EDUCATION	94
8.	NEIL O. HOUSER	PROBLEM-POSING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A FREIRIAN APPROACH	102
9.	FILIP IVANOVIC	EDUCATION IN BYZANTINE EMPIRE	112
10.	VALENTIN KALAN	ON THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF GREEK PAIDEIA FOR THE CONCEPT OF A BALANCED EDUCATION: ARISTOTLE, NIETZSCHE, CAMUS AND ARENDT	122
11.	VASILIKI KARAVAKOU	THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL AND UNIVERSAL IDEALS IN MODERN EDUCATION	140
12.	STEPHANIE MACKLER	SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FOR THE GLOBAL ERA: FROM THE POSITIVIST TO THE HERMENEUTIC UNIVERSITY	155
13.	JOSEP MONSERRAT-MOLAS & ÕNGEL PASCUAL-MARTIN	"HIPPOCRATES AT THE CROSSROADS" EAGER FOR PAIDEIA	168
14.	SEAMUS MULRYAN	DIALOGICAL HERMENEUTICS OF FACTICITY: AN EDUCATION FOR THE GLOBAL ERA	185
15.	AKBAR RAHNAMA	RETURN TO PAIDEIA AS A BASIC EDUCATIONAL NEED IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION	197
16.	THOMAS M. ROBINSON	PLATO'S FINAL THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION	202
17.	SCOTT RUBARTH	BREAKING THROUGH THE NOISE: CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY IN AN AGE OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD	211
18.	HEMANT SHAH	EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE	219
19.	GEORGINA TSOLIDIS	PAIDEIA, VALUES AND MULTICULTURALISM	229
20.	JOANNE WAUGH & DAVID GARRISON	PAIDEIA BEFORE PHILOSOPHY: THE ÓOÖIH OF XENOPHANES	238
21.	JOHN R. WOLFE	THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PAIDEIA IN PLATO'S TIMAEUS	250
22.	HIDEYA YAMAKAWA	COSMOPOLITAN PAIDEIA	260
		INDEX OF NAMES	270