Topics in education : the Cincinnati lectures of 1959 on the philosophy of education / edited by Robert M. Doran and Frederick E. Crowe ; revising and augmenting the unpublished text prepared by James Quinn and John Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lonergan, Bernard J. F.

Contributor:

Crowe, Frederick E.

Doran, Robert M., 1939-

Lonergan Research Institute.

Series:

Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1988 ; Works. v. 10.

Collected works of Bernard Lonergan ; v.10

Standardized Title:

Works. 2005

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Church and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Published by University of Toronto Press for Lonergan Research Institute of Regis College, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bernard Lonergan devoted much of his life's work to developing a generalized method of inquiry, an integrated view which would overcome the fragmentation of knowledge in our time. In Topics in Education Lonergan adapts that concern to the practical needs of educators. Traditionalist and modernist notions of education are both criticized. Lonergan attempts to work out, in the context of the human good and the 'new learning,' the rudiments of a philosophy of education based on his well-known discovery of norms in the unfolding of intelligent, reasonable, and responsible consciousness. He explores how the scientific revolution has changed ways of understanding reality, and examines the implications of this revolution for education. Topics in Education, the first publication of his 1959 lectures, follows Lonergan on his early explorations of human development, studies the theories of Jean Piaget and others, and concludes with his own original ideas in the realms of ethics, art, and history.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Editors' Preface""; ""1 The Problem of a Philosophy of Education""; ""1 Philosophy of Education: Existence""; ""1.1 A Merely Negative Conception of Philosophy of Education""; ""1.2 The Influence of Dewey's Philosophy of Education""; ""1.3 Traditionalists and Modernists""; ""1.4 The Renaissance Ideal and Philosophy""; ""2 New Factors in Contemporary Education""; ""2.1 The Masses""; ""2.2 The New Learning""; ""2.3 Specialization""; ""3 Toward a Catholic Philosophy of Education""; ""4 Manner of Presentation""; ""2 The Human Good as Object: Its Invariant Structure""

""1 Introduction""""2 The Notion of the Good""; ""2.1 Not Abstract""; ""2.2 Not an Aspect""; ""2.3 Not Negative""; ""2.4 Not a Double Negation""; ""2.5 Not Merely an Ideal""; ""2.6 Not Apart from Evil""; ""2.7 Not Static""; ""2.8 The Good Known Analogously""; ""2.9 The General Notion of the Human Good""; ""3 The Invariant Structure of the Human Good""; ""3.1 The Structure""; ""3.2 Notes on the Invariant Structure of the Human Good""; ""3.3 Evil""; ""3 The Human Good as Object: Differentials and Integration""; ""1 The Differentials of the Human Good""; ""1.1 Intellectual Development""

""1.2 Sin""""1.3 Redemption""; ""1.4 Notes on the Differentials""; ""2 Levels of Integration""; ""2.1 Common Sense""; ""2.2 Four Levels of Integration""; ""4 The Human Good as the Developing Subject""; ""1 Transitions""; ""1.1 'Being a Man': From Essence to Ideal""; ""1.2 'We, ' 'I': From Substance to Subject""; ""1.3 From Faculty Psychology to Flow of Consciousness""; ""2 Differentiation and Horizon""; ""2.1 The Intellectual Pattern of Experience""; ""2.2 Horizon""; ""3 Development""; ""3.1 Scientific Development""; ""3.2 Philosophic Development""; ""3.3 Moral Development""

""4 Corollaries in Education""""4.1 Active Methods""; ""4.2 Should Education Be Moral?""; ""4.3 Philosophy of Education and the Horizon of the Educationalist""; ""5 The New Learning: Mathematics""; ""1 Knowledge of Intellect Prior to the New Learning""; ""1.1 Scholastic Theories""; ""1.2 Illustrations from Geometry""; ""1.3 Matter, Form, Abstraction""; ""1.4 Implications for Teaching""; ""1.5 Differences in Expression""; ""1.6 The Greek Achievement""; ""2 The Postclassical Versatility of Understanding""; ""2.1 The Lobatchevskian Experience""; ""2.2 Quest for Rigor""

""2.3 Abstraction: What Is Abstracted from""""2.4 What One Reaches by Abstraction""; ""2.5 Abstraction and Operations: Group Theory""; ""6 Science and the New Learning""; ""1 Heuristic Structures and Canons""; ""1.1 An Instance""; ""1.2 Heuristic Structure""; ""1.3 The Canons of Empirical Method""; ""1.4 Teaching Physics""; ""2 The Transformation of the Notion of Science""; ""2.1 From the Certain to the Probable: Science, Judgment, and Wisdom""; ""2.2 Things and Causes: Analysis and Synthesis""; ""2.3 Field Theory""; ""2.4 From Logical Ideal to Method""

Notes:

Revising and augmenting the unpublished text prepared by James Quinn and John Quinn.

Originally published in 1993.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 29, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4875-8877-1

1-282-01193-6

9786612011931

1-4426-8267-1

OCLC:

288097740