THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDUCATIONAL TREATISES AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF THEIR POSSIBILITIES

Abstract

The paper highlights the literary genre under which Plato and Rousseau have written their most famous texts on education: The Republic and Émile. It aims mainly at indicating the hermeneutic possibilities that arise from the fact that both books have been written in a poetic language: the first one is a socratic dialogue and the second one is an educational romance.