Education
From telos to technique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8857437 |
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| Authors | Anoop Krishna Gupta (0000-0002-8685-364X, University of Windsor, corresponding author), Anoop Gupta (a University of Windsor, Ontario) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 266-276 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00330.x |
| OpenAlex | W2023701074 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
A preoccupation with technology has helped bury the philosophical question: What is the point of education? I attempt to answer this question. Various answers to the question are surveyed and it is shown that they depend upon different conceptions of the self. For example, the devotional‐self of the 12th century (which was about becoming master of the self) gave way to the liberal‐self (which was to facilitate social change). Education can only be satisfactorily justified, I argue, by appeal to transcendent values such as mastery of the self, which is incipient in liberal education
Appeal · Epistemology · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberal education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Point (geometry · Political science · Sociology · Telos · Digital Media and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Highly cited | No |
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