Self-Knowledge and Teaching in Confucius and Plato
I am grateful to Rosa Hong Chen for bringing to our attention the powerful philosophical insights and possibilities that Confucius’s Analects have for philosophy of education as it is conducted in North America and for inviting us to compare his insights with those of perhaps the most influential figure in Western philosophy, Socrates. I am also grateful for the opportunity that Chen has provided for me to think systematically and comparatively about the way that these two seminal figures can and do inform our understanding of the nature and importance of self-knowledge and the role of the teacher in attaining it.