Dahlbeck Spinoza and Education

Freedom, understanding and empowerment
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-39434-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

Reihe: New Directions in the Philosophy of Education

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. Dahlbeck demonstrates that Spinoza’s moral theory can be seen as furthering an educational ideal, where notions of freedom and self-preservation provide the conceptual core of a coherent philosophy of education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahlbeck, Johan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Spinoza’s Ethical Project 2. Self-Preservation as an Educational Ideal 3. To be Educated is to Exist More: Spinoza’s Gradualist Notion of Reality 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 7. Conclusion: Outlining a Spinozistic Philosophy of Education

Über Autor(innen)

Johan Dahlbeck is Senior Lecturer in Child and Youth Studies in the Faculty of Education and Society, Malmö University, Sweden.