Summary of the rest of Part III (to be published soon):

Steiner's definition of literature as "the maximization of semantic incommensurability in respect of the formal means of expression", will be examined within the framework of repetition and variation in order to look at the structure of what is artistic in both art and life. I will demonstrate through a simple exercise in interprative poetics that a Socratic philosophy of living an examined life allows us to experience greater depth and meaning in our experiences of art and life. The use of Socratic dialogue will be defined as an expression of the art of creating artists.

Summary of Part IV (to be published soon):

Part IV takes the art theme of Parts I-III into implimentation and concludes the philosophical foundations portion of "The Fundamentals of Education" with a description of the fundamental principles that are the foundation of living the examined life. These principles are the fundamentals of education. Section one of Part IV, in contrast to some of the writing in the first three parts, will seek the utmost simplification. Living the examined life is based on principles so simple that they flow naturally out of the instincts of a child. The first section of Part Four, as I say in its introduction (already written) that "In the presentation of these fundamentals, I will not strive to teach anything new. I will merely seek to remind you of simple truths that nobody had to teach you." It is in the rememberance of these truths of human living that the examined life comes to life and brings a depth of meaning and virtue to human living that can be found in no other way.