A Philosophy for Education

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71251-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research

A Philosophy for Education: A Study in Aesthetic Rationality supports an argument for the crucial role of the aesthetic in a humanist education. It is structured around the philosophy of Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) who saw the poetic imagination as the first language through which humankind makes sense of its place within the world with myths and symbolic ritual. This is the search for the truth of identity and, ultimately, requires a self that examines its own experiences. That examination is the work of an aesthetic rationality that responds to life’s contradictions through the use of metaphor: An historical perspective, ranging from the Renaissance, through the Romantic Movement, to Phenomenology, identifies the major characteristics of an aesthetic rationality, and concludes with recommendations for the school curriculum.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolton, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

1 On Aesthetic Rationality

2 Making and Receiving

3 In Praise of the Communal

2 Renaissance Humanism

1 Learning from Examples

2 Religious Thought

3 The World of Poetry

4 In Summary

3 Vico’s Philosophy

1 The World Made by Man

2 The Three Stages

3 Vico’s Legacy

4 The Inward Journey

1 Vico Today

2 The Journeying Self

3 The Work of the Imagination

4 The Truth of Art

5 The Lighted Realm

1 The Pre-reflective World

2 The First Language

3 The Lighted Realm

4 Beginning and Concluding

6 Contemplating the Paradox

1 Contemplating the Paradox

2 Plotinus on Contemplation

3 The Logic of Contradictory Identity

7 Precision and Soul

1 The Two Adaptations and the Principle of the Insufficient Cause

2 The Science of the Enlightened Mind

3 Aristotle

4 Goethe’s Art of Nature

5 Goethe’s Science

6 A Concluding Scientific Postscript

8 Aesthetic Rationality

1 The Sensus Communis

2 The Other Condition

3 Creative Fidelity

9 A Philosophy for Education

1 A Return to Self-Knowledge

2 Doing Good, Having Good Faith

3 A Philosophy for Education

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Bolton was Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Durham, UK and later Professor of Education at Sheffield University. He is the author of books on The Psychology of Thinking and Concept Formation and has written numerous journal articles both in the applied field and with respect to philosophical issues in Psychology.