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Aristotle is undisputedly a major thinker in education. Alexander Mosley's volume offers the most coherent account of Aristotle's educational thought. This work is divided into: 1) Intellectual Bibliography 2) Critical exposition of Aristotle's work 3) The reception and influence of Aristotle's work 4) The relevance of the work today
Table of Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Part 1: Intellectual Biography
Aristotle's heritage
Macedonia
Archaic educational influences
Hellenic childhood
Sex and gender
The Pre-Socratics
Sophists
Plato
Plato's Academy
Plato's Death
Aristotle at the Macedonian Court
The Lyceum
Part 2: Critical Exposition of Aristotle's Work
Introduction
Metaphysics
Learning and the philosophy of change
Ousia - or what does not change
Teleology
Sensation and Perception
Memory, imagination, and experience
Nous and psyche
Thinking
Forms of Wisdom
Art
Practical wisdom
Philosophical wisdom
The wise man T
he active and philosophical life
Akrasia - moral weakness
Education in the Polis
The healthy body
Birth and sex
Public health
The young child's education
From seven to fourteen
Music
Education - the later years
Part 3: The Reception and Influence of Aristotle's Work
THE ANCIENT WORLD
The Lyceum/Peripatos
The Rise of Rome and it's Hellenization
The Broader Hellenic World
Byzantine & the East
THE MIDDLE AGES
Christianity and Aristotle
Aristotle in the Universities
Part 4: The Relevance of Aristotle's Work Today
The Modern State and Aristotelian education
Reductionism and materialism
The Philosophical Legacy Today
Works Cited
Index
Product details
Published | 26 Nov 2009 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781847061034 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Series | Continuum Library of Educational Thought |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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