Education as Training for Life
Stoic teachers as physicians of the soul
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8859289 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Andrew Holowchak (Wilkes University, corresponding author), Mark A Holowchak (Wilkes University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 166-184 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-16 |
| 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.1469-5812.2007.00384.x |
| OpenAlex | W2156475137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper is an indirect critique of the practice of American liberal education. I show that the liberal, integrative model that American colleges and universities have adopted, with one key exception, is essentially an approach to education proposed some 2400 years ago by Stoic philosophers. To this end, I focus on a critical sketch of the Stoic model of education—chiefly through the works of Seneca, Epictetus, and Aurelius—that is distinguishable by these features: education as self‐knowing, the need of logic and critical thinking for informed decision‐making, learning as preparation for life, and knowledge for integration in private, local, and global affairs. Such a critical sketch may not only help institutions instantiate their own similar aims more effectively, but also help them assess those aims with apposite normative force, which today they lack
Critical thinking · Epistemology · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberal education · Mathematics education · Normative · Pedagogy · Political science · Sketch · Sociology · Soul · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |