1st Edition

Philosophy of Education The Essential Texts

Edited By Steven M. Cahn Copyright 2009
512 Pages
by Routledge

522 Pages
by Routledge

Philosophy of education is a study both of the aims of education and the most appropriate means of achieving those aims.  This volume contains substantial selections from those works widely regarded as central to the development of the field. These are the "essential texts" that lay the foundation for further study. The text is historically organized, moving from classical thought (Plato,... Read more

Preface

1. Plato

Meno (complete)

Republic

Afterword, Robert S. Brumbaugh

2. Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics

Politics

Afterword, Randall Curren

3. Augustine

On the Teacher

Afterword, Philip L. Quinn

4. John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Afterword, Peter Gay

5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emile

Afterword, William Boyd

6. Immanuel Kant

Lectures on Pedagogy

Afterword, Robert B. Louden

7. Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Afterword, Jane Roland Martin

8. John Stuart Mill

Inaugural Address at St. Andrews (complete)

Afterword, Elizabeth Anderson

9. Alfred North Whitehead

The Aims of Education

Afterword, Nathaniel M. Lawrence

10. John Dewey

Democracy and Education

Afterword, Sidney Hook

Biography

Steven M. Cahn is Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center. Among the nine books he has authored are The Eclipse of Excellence, Education and the Democratic Ideal, Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia, revised edition, and From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor. He is also the editor of more than thirty volumes, including Morality, Responsibility and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics, The Affirmative Action Debate (Routledge), now in its second edition, and Classics of Western Philosophy, now in its seventh edition.