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Author : William Louis 1870- Rabenort
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781373958983

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Author : Johan Dahlbeck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317394356

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Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza’s moral theory. Taking Spinoza’s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza’s psychological egoism. What emerges is a counterintuitive form of education grounded in the egoistic striving of the teacher to persevere and to flourish in existence while still catering to the ethical demands of the students and the greater community. In providing an educational reading of Spinoza’s moral theory, this book sets up a critical dialogue between educational theory and recent studies which highlight the centrality of ethics in Spinoza’s overall philosophy. By placing his work in a contemporary educational context, chapters explore a counterintuitive conception of education as an ethical project, aimed at overcoming the desire to seek short-term satisfaction and troubling the influential concept of the student as consumer. This book also considers how education, from a Spinozistic point of view, may be approached in terms of a kind of cognitive therapy serving to further a more scientifically adequate understanding of the world and aimed at combating prejudices and superstition. Spinoza and Education demonstrates that Spinoza’s moral theory can further an educational ideal, where notions of freedom and self-preservation provide the conceptual core of a coherent philosophy of education. As such, it will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, theory of education, critical thinking, philosophy, ethics, and Spinoza studies.

Author : Johan Dahlbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317394348

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Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza’s moral theory. Taking Spinoza’s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza’s psychological egoism. What emerges is a counterintuitive form of education grounded in the egoistic striving of the teacher to persevere and to flourish in existence while still catering to the ethical demands of the students and the greater community. In providing an educational reading of Spinoza’s moral theory, this book sets up a critical dialogue between educational theory and recent studies which highlight the centrality of ethics in Spinoza’s overall philosophy. By placing his work in a contemporary educational context, chapters explore a counterintuitive conception of education as an ethical project, aimed at overcoming the desire to seek short-term satisfaction and troubling the influential concept of the student as consumer. This book also considers how education, from a Spinozistic point of view, may be approached in terms of a kind of cognitive therapy serving to further a more scientifically adequate understanding of the world and aimed at combating prejudices and superstition. Spinoza and Education demonstrates that Spinoza’s moral theory can further an educational ideal, where notions of freedom and self-preservation provide the conceptual core of a coherent philosophy of education. As such, it will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, theory of education, critical thinking, philosophy, ethics, and Spinoza studies.

Author : Johan Dahlbeck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811671257

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This book is a philosophical enquiry into the educational consequences of Spinoza’s political theory. Spinoza’s political theory is of particular interest for educational thought as it brings together the normative aims of his ethical theory with his realistic depiction of human psychology and the ramifications of this for successful political governance. As such, this book aims to introduce the reader to Spinoza’s original vision of civic education, as a project that ultimately aims at the ethical flourishing of individuals, while being carefully tailored and adjusted to the natural limitations of human reason. Readers will benefit from a succinct introduction to Spinoza’s political philosophy and from an account of civic education that is based on careful exegetical work. It draws conclusions only hinted at in Spinoza’s own writings.

Author : Johan Dahlbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 042994232X

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Education and Free Will critically assesses and makes use of Spinoza’s insights on human freedom to construe an account of education that is compatible with causal determinism without sacrificing the educational goal of increasing students’ autonomy and self-determination. Offering a thorough investigation into the philosophical position of causal determinism, Dahlbeck discusses Spinoza’s view of self-determination and presents his own suggestions for an education for autonomy from a causal determinist point of view. The book begins by outlining the free will problem in education, before expanding on a philosophical understanding of autonomy and how it is seen as an educational ideal. It considers Spinoza’s determinism and discusses his denial of moral responsibility. Later chapters consider the relationship between causal determinism and autonomy, the educational implications of understanding free will and how free will can be utilised as a valuable fiction in education. This book will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students in the field of education, especially those with an interest in moral education and philosophy of education. It will also be of interest to those in the fields of philosophy and psychology and specifically those focusing on the free will problem, on Spinoza studies, and on the relation between moral psychology and external influence.

Author : William Louis Rabenort
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781330671849

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Excerpt from Spinoza as Educator After three and a half centuries Benedict Spinoza is more than ever an intellectual force to be reckoned with. His influence upon his own and immediately succeeding generations was of the slightest, and even when the teachings of the Jew of Amsterdam were no longer shunned, they were still misunderstood, and by none more profoundly than by Herder, Lessig, Goethe, and the others of that group of enthusiastic admirers which constitutes perhaps Spinoza's most obvious influence upon civilization. In the History of Philosophy he looms in majestic solitude, a peak but remotely joined to the adjacent heights. It is therefore not surprising to find his name conspicuously absent from the roll of philosophers who figure in the History of Education. The bibliography at the end of this essay is evidence of the interest manifested in Spinoza at the present time. Professor William James quoted him as an authority on psychology, and in the preface to his "Analytic Psychology," Dr. G. F. Stout acknowledges his pre-eminent indebtedness to Spinoza. The attempt made in the following pages to point out the educational implications of Spinoza's philosophy seemed to necessitate introductory summaries and interpretations which might have been omitted were the foundations of Spinoza's philosophy familiar to the students of education into whose hands this volume may come. The essay might then have been wholly devoted to the more practical if not more congenial task of discussing intensively one or another of the problems briefly treated in the final chapter. A fuller exposition of each of these topics would do much to clarify current educational thought, and it is hoped that the bearing of Spinoza's philosophy upon education will attract the labor of other hands. It is believed that further and broader studies will justify the conclusions herein expressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Mogens Lærke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192648713

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Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing is a study of freedom of speech, good government, civic responsibility, public education, and the foundations of religion and society, as seen through the eyes of seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza. During the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, a new kind of public sphere emerged. Courtly structures of political advice made room for new, republican forms of public consultation between the sovereign powers and the general citizenry. Missing, however, were guidelines for how and when to address questions of public concern and how to form unprejudiced citizens in possession of their own free judgment, capable of speaking up for themselves in public deliberations with the common interest in view. The book argues that Spinoza's conception of the freedom of philosophizing, and the systematic political theory he developed to defend it in his 1670 Theological-Political Treatise, were conceived to provide just such guidelines. It shows how Spinoza understood the freedom of philosophizing as a collective style of reasoning and argument based on mutual teaching and advising, a model for the public sphere in a free republic. It studies the conditions under which such a public sphere of free philosophizing could flourish, how it would require popular reform of public education and democratic reorganization of the relations between political counsel and sovereign command. It also shows how Spinoza designed theological and political doctrines of universal faith and social contract in order to promote true religion and a sense of civic duty, and asserted the state's right over sacred matters as a means to ensure mutual toleration in a multi-religious society.