ABSTRACT
The recently deceased Stanley Rosen set out and pursued a path for philosophy after postmodernism (Rosen, 2002, 2013a, 2013b, 2014). In part, this pursuit requires the return to ‘everyday life’, including its speech, as the only non-arbitrary starting point of philosophical inquiry. This path necessitates a return to Plato and Western metaphysics which, I suggest, remains ‘the text’ for which modernism and postmodernism are footnotes (pace A.N. Whitehead). If postmodernism saw the death of Man, returning to Plato means Man’s resurrection as the being at the centre of ‘everyday life’, which is the permanent ground out of which arises the wonder and perplexity that leads to philosophy. This return is important for philosophy, and perhaps vital for the philosophy of education.
