Spinoza and Education : Freedom, understanding and empowerment

ISBN-13: 9781138610323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Johan Dahlbeck

Opis

This book offers an educational reading of Spinoza’s moral theory, setting 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Why All Education Begins and Ends in Moral Education  1. Spinoza’s Ethical Project  2. To Be Educated Is to Exist More: Spinoza’s Gradualist Notion of Reality  3. Self-preservation as an Educational Ideal  4. Moderating the Passive Affects: Education, Imagination and Causation  5. Educational Implications of the Doctrine of the Imitation of Affects  6. Teaching as the Art of Offering the Right Amount of Resistance  Conclusion: Outlining a Spinozistic Account of Education

O autorze

Johan Dahlbeck is Senior Lecturer in Child and Youth Studies at Malmö University.