Childhood and the Philosophy of Education: An Anti-Aristotelian Perspective

by Andrew Stables

Book Overview

Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children (like women, animals, slaves, and the mob) as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. Despite much rhetoric concerning either the sinfulness or purity of children (as in Puritanism and Romanticism respectively), the assumption that children are marginal has endured. Modern theories, including recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826499724
• ISBN13: 9780826499721
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"