The common things : essays on thomism and education. - McInerny, Daniel (Ed.)
Essays on Thomism and Education
KORTE INHOUD
Concerned with the trendy, technocratic, and at times sophistical character of contemporary education at all levels, both public and private, the authors of this collection seek to reinvigorate a Thomistic approach to education appropriate to the problems of our day. With its main inspiration taken from the work of Jacques Maritain, especially his 1943 Education at the Crossroads, the volume presents a trenchant critique of the "privacies" of contemporary education, with its emphasis upon the conventional and useful. At the same time, the essays present the outlines of the proper alternative, an education which helps students draw out from themselves the desire for truths which transcend the contingencies of culture and utility. Such an education seeks to guide students to "the common things" available to all human beings. The essays uphold an account of man's intellectual and affective capacities which understands these capacities as naturally ordered to truth. The essays approach the task in different but c...
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1999Uitgever: American Maritain Association290 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0966922603ISBN-13: 9780966922608Koop dit boek tweedehands
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X, 281 pagina's. Paperback Mishawaka [IN], American Maritain Association 1999 [Auteur: McInerny, Daniel (Ed.)] [Jaar: 1999] [Titel: The common things : essays on thomism and education.]
