Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom: The Aims of Education Revisited

ISBN-13: 9780367582753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Jānis (John) Ozoliņs

Opis

Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom examines the ways in which the timeless human search for wisdom relates to current educational practices. It challenges the current approach of an economically-driven system preparing students for the workplace, and instead discusses the importance of teaching wisdom in order to enrich  the

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.