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Title

Philosophers on education : historical perspectives / edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rorty, Amélie.

Description

xiv, 480 pages; 26 cm

Summary

Philosophers on Education offers us the most comprehensive available history of philosopher's views and impacts on the directions of education. As Amelie Rorty explains, in describing a history of education, we are essentially describing and gaining the clearest understanding of the issues that presently concern and divide us.

Subject

• Education > Philosophy
• Education > Philosophy > History
• Educational change
• Philosophy
• School improvement programs
• Education > history
• Philosophy
• philosophy
• School improvement programs
• Education > Philosophy
• Educational change
• Onderwijs
• Filosofen

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• The ruling history of education / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Socratic education / Paul Woodruff -- Plato's counsel on education / Zhang LoShan -- Aristotelian education / C.D.C. Reeve -- Augustine on what we owe to our teachers / Simon Harrison -- Augustinian learning / Philip L. Quinn -- Aquinas's critique of education: against his own age, against ours / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Maimonides on education / Josef Stern --Descartes, or the cultivation of the intellect / Daniel Garber -- Hobbes: truth, publicity and civil doctrine / Jeremy Waldron -- Hobbes on education / Richard Tuck -- Spinoza and the education of the imagination / Genevieve Lloyd -- Locke: education for virtue / John W. Yolton -- Locke on the education of paupers / Peter Gay.
• Leibniz as a theorist of education / Patrick Riley -- Condorcet and Adam Smith on education and instruction / Emma Rothschild -- Hume on moral sentiments, and the difference they make / Annette C. Baier -- Rousseau's educational experiments / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Training to autonomy: Kant and the question of moral education / Barbara Herman -- Jeffersonian ambivalences / Eva T.H. Brann -- A romantic education: the concept of Bildung in early Germany romanticism / Frederick C. Beiser -- Hegel on education / Allen W. Wood -- A Nietzschean education: Zarathustra/Zarathustra as educator / Richard Schacht -- John Stuart Mill: democracy as sentimental education / Elizabeth Anderson -- The past in the present: Plato as educator of nineteenth-century Britain / M.F. Buryneat.
• Moral education in and after Marx / Richard W. Miller -- Deweyan pragmatism and American education / Alan Ryan -- Learning from Freud / Adam Phillips -- Enlightenment and the Vienna circle's scientific world-conception / Thomas E. Uebel -- Education and social epistemology / Alvin I. Goldman -- Traditional Shi'ite education in Qom / Roy P. Mottahedeh -- The Yeshiva / Moshe Halbertal and Tova Hartman Halbertal -- Civic education in the liberal state / William Galston.

ISBN

• 9780415191302
• 0415191300
• 9780415191319
• 0415191319

LCCN

98004865

OCLC

• ocm38200132
• 38200132
• SCSB-8899646

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library