A Companion to the Philosophy of Education [Paperback]

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Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xvi

Introduction 1
Randall Curren

Part I Historical and Contemporary Movements 5

1 The Socratic Movement 7
C. D. C. Reeve

2 Stoicism 25
Christopher Gill

3 The Judaic Tradition 33
Hanan A. Alexander and Shmuel Glick

4 The Educational Thought of Augustine 50
Gareth B. Matthews

5 Humanism 62
Craig Kallendorf

6 Enlightenment Liberalism 73
Amy M. Schmitter, Nathan Tarcov, and Wendy Donner

7 Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy 94
Patrick Riley and Jennifer Welchman

8 Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science 113
G. Felicitas Munzel

9 Romanticism 130
Frederick C. Beiser

10 The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft 143
Wolfgang Manl3,