Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Notes on Translations; Introduction; 1 Greek Paideia and Socratic Principles; Athenian and Spartan Education; Why Would No One Doubt That Education Should Be the Legislator's Foremost Concern?; Education and Law in the Apology and Crito; 2 The Arguments of Plato; Ignoring the Gadfly; Blaming What Is Learned Ignorance and Incapacity in the Protagoras; ""Fostering Their Best Part with Our Own"": Education and Law in the Republic; Justice and Common Care in the Laws.
3 Groundwork for an Interpretation of Politics VIII.1The Theory of Rule and Constitutions, in Outline; The Practical Intent of Aristotle's Political Thought; The Two Conclusions of Politics VIII 1; Culture, Schooling, and Law; The Content of Public Education; Education That Is the Same for ""Everyone""; 4 Why Education Is Important; Aristotle's Two Arguments for the Importance of Education; The Appeal to a Desire for Stable Rule; Arguments from Constitutional Quality; 5 Why Education Should Be Public and the Same for All; The Argument from a Common End; The Arguments from Inseparability.
The Argument from the Foundations of Corrective Justice6 Education and the Foundations of Justice; The Scope and Alleged Independence of Corrective Justice; Responsibility for Actions and for Character; The Presuppositions of Corrective Justice; A Radical Proposal; 7 Justice and the Substance of Common Care; Justice and Educational Equality; Cultivating the Moral and Intellectual Virtues; The Case for Public Education; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
