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The scholar's education consists of three influences: I. Nature, as the most important influence on the mind; II. The Past, manifest in books; III. Action and its relation to experience; The last, unnumbered part of the text is devoted to Emerson's view on the "Duties" of the American Scholar who has become the "Man Thinking".
Title page from the first edition of Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the ...
Steiner had wanted to write a philosophy of freedom since at least 1880. [12] The appearance of The Philosophy of Freedom in 1894 [13] was preceded by his publications on Goethe, focusing on epistemology and the philosophy of science, particularly Goethe the Scientist (1883) [14] and The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception (1886). [15]
Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. [1]
The problem, MacIntyre maintains, is that teleological morality was developed to overcome defects in human nature; to posit an example of the ideal. Without this notion of ‘perfect humanity’ the only remaining foundation to build a moral theory on was the foundation of imperfect human nature. [63]
Boethius engages with the nature of predestination and free will, the problem of evil and the "problem of desert", [5] human nature, virtue, and justice. He speaks about the nature of free will and determinism when he asks whether God knows and sees all, or does man have free will. On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good ...
part i, essay viii, of parties in general; part i, essay ix, of the parties of great britain; part i, essay x, of superstition and enthusiasm; part i, essay xi, of the dignity or meanness of human nature; part i, essay xii, of civil liberty; part i, essay xiii, of eloquence; part i, essay xiv, of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1689; Anne Conway, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 1690; Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding, 1704 (printed 1765) George Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710; Gottfried Leibniz, Théodicée, 1710