Philosophers on Education

By John Wilson

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - THE LOGIC OF EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS - Education and Magic; D.Z.Phillips - Examination not Attempted; A.Flew - Education as a Positional Good; M.Hollis - RATIONALITY, UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION - The Transmission of Knowledge; N.Cooper - On Having a Mind of One's Own; R.S.Downie - Humanistic Education: Some Philosophical Considerations; G.H.R.Parkinson - REASON IN RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION - Two Questions about Religious Education; W.D.Hudson - Attitudes to Evidence and Argument in the Field of Religion; R.W.Hepburn - Moral Developments as the Goal of Moral Education; D.Locke - The Roots of Moral Reason; R.Bambrough - Index

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333395301
• ISBN13: 9780333395301
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"