PRINCIPLES OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

The aim of this book is to show that the field of education is not originally a realm of pedagogical rules and regulations, but rather a realm of philosophical principles; that fundamentally all dimensions of cognition have the structure of philosophical inquiry; and that it is therefore possible to conceive education as a contrapuntal meditation not only on the real, but also on the imaginary. In order to carry out this aim, five different philosophical disciplines have been kept in mind: epistemology, logic, ontology, teleology, and ethics. What unites these is the phenomenology employed by the author, who always speaks out of, and towards, experience. Thus, this is not just a book about the philosophy of education, but also an original philosophical text on the philosophy of education, and, last but not least, a philosophical guide to educational experience: to the experience of learning itself.