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Philosophers on education : six essays on the foundations of Western thought

Title
Philosophers on education : six essays on the foundations of Western thought / Robert S. Brumbaugh, Yale University, Nathaniel M. Lawrence, Williams College.
Author
Brumbaugh, Robert S. (Robert Sherrick), 1918-1992.
Publication
  • Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1963]
  • ©1963

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Additional Authors
Lawrence, Nathaniel M. (Nathaniel Morris), 1917-1986
Description
ix, 211 pages; 21 cm
Subject
  • Education > Philosophy
  • Erziehungsphilosophie
  • Geschichte
  • Education > Philosophy > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Plato: the fundamental principles of education. Platonic origins of educational thought -- Plato's philosophy -- The divided line: knowledge and the curriculum -- The love of the ideal -- Motivation and the method of inquiry -- Education and society -- The concrete curriculum -- Conclusion -- Aristotle: education as self-realization. Introduction -- Eudaimonia and Aretë -- Science and human nature -- Human nature: sense, habit, and reason -- Moral education and self-realization -- The curriculum -- Conclusion -- Rousseau: Émile, a romance of education. The idea of natural growth -- Child into man -- Summary and criticism -- Kant: the moral structure of education. Kant as the bridge between the classical and contemporary views -- The import of Kant's major philosophical works -- Applications to the art of teaching -- Dewey: the educational experience. Progressivism and the idea of progress -- Progressive education -- The experiential continuum -- Evolutionary processes and knowing processes -- Education and the human self -- The self and society -- Whitehead: the rhythm of nature. Three naturalisms -- Whitehead and relativity -- Physical education and intellectual education -- The functions of the teacher -- The curricular process -- The aim of education. Conclusion. Some contemporary problems -- A prologue to future philosophies of education -- Conclusion.
LCCN
63024108
OCLC
  • ocm01000424
  • 1000424
  • SCSB-178114
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library