1st Edition
Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom The Aims of Education Revisited
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter One: The Concept of Wisdom
Chapter Two: Augustine on wisdom and education
Chapter Three: Bonaventure’s conception of wisdom
Chapter Four: Wisdom as aim of education in East and West
Chapter Five: Aquinas and wisdom as the aim of education
Chapter Six: Confucian heritage culture, education and wisdom
Chapter Seven: Cultivating the virtues in Mencius and Aquinas: East and West compared
Chapter Eight: Newman and the idea of a university
Chapter Nine: Liberal arts, generic skills and the aims of education
Chapter Ten: A. D. Sertillanges on wisdom and the intellectual life
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: Final thoughts
Index
Biography
Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš is Professor, College of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia, former Professor of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, Australia, and permanent Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia. He is Reviews Editor for Educational Philosophy and Theory.
