Philosophy for Education

Neil Bolton was Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Durham, UK and later Professor of Education at Sheffield University. He is the author of books on The Psychology of Thinking and Concept Formation and has written numerous journal articles both in the applied field and with respect to philosophical issues in Psychology.

• 1 Introduction1 On Aesthetic Rationality2 Making and Receiving3 In Praise of the Communal2 Renaissance Humanism1 Learning from Examples2 Religious Thought3 The World of Poetry4 In Summary3 Vico’s Philosophy1 The World Made by Man2 The Three Stages3 Vico’s Legacy4 The Inward Journey1 Vico Today2 The Journeying Self3 The Work of the Imagination4 The Truth of Art5 The Lighted Realm1 The Pre-reflective World2 The First Language3 The Lighted Realm4 Beginning and Concluding6 Contemplating the Paradox1 Contemplating the Paradox2 Plotinus on Contemplation3 The Logic of Contradictory Identity7 Precision and Soul1 The Two Adaptations and the Principle of the Insufficient Cause2 The Science of the Enlightened Mind3 Aristotle4 Goethe’s Art of Nature5 Goethe’s Science6 A Concluding Scientific Postscript8 Aesthetic Rationality1 The Sensus Communis2 The Other Condition3 Creative Fidelity9 A Philosophy for Education1 A Return to Self-Knowledge2 Doing Good, Having Good Faith3 A Philosophy for EducationIndex