ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a schematic outline of Parmenidean-Platonic (P+P) normative method. P+P method begins from the same nine-part logical structure of education as Isocratic educational philosophy does, but answers the formal, normative and methodological questions a different order and in a very manner. P+P educational thought does not deduce the goals and value of education from habituated political doctrines, but from the questions articulated by induction from our common ignorance about the origins, arguments for and truth of those doctrines. Aristotle argues that if the political life is life of noble action proceeding from practical virtue, then those pursuing this life must possess such virtue. Socrates regards political doctrines as hypotheses, or conditional propositions. He subjects such hypotheses to dialectical examination from two points of view, their clarity and their truthfulness. The essential difference between the Socratic and Isocratic ideas of the nature of education is founded on the question of the source of the normative intentions of education.
