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  1. Jun 2, 2008 · Philosophy of education is the branch of applied or practical philosophy concerned with the nature and aims of education and the philosophical problems arising from educational theory and practice.

  2. Oct 1, 2024 · The history of philosophy of education is an important source of concerns and issues—as is the history of education itself—for setting the intellectual agenda of contemporary philosophers of education. Equally relevant is the range of contemporary approaches to the subject.

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  3. May 15, 2007 · Many major historical figures in philosophy have provided an answer to the question of what, if anything, makes life meaningful, although they typically have not put it in these terms (with such talk having arisen only in the past 250 years or so, on which see Landau 1997).

  4. Jun 30, 2015 · Abstract. There are deep connections between education and the question of life's meaning, which derive, ultimately, from the fact that, for human beings, how to live—and therefore, how to raise one's children—is not a given but a question.

  5. Jun 2, 2008 · A.N. Whitehead somewhere remarked that the history of Western philosophy is nothing but a series of footnotes to Plato, and if the Meno and the Laws are added to the Republic, the same is true of the history of educational thought and of philosophy of education in particular.

  6. Feb 22, 2024 · I have made the case that education should matter to philosophy by arguing that education, very broadly conceived (as formation or self-development), is central to the human life-form, and by exploring some of the metaphysical and epistemic questions that come into view when one recognises this.

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  8. May 30, 2006 · See Edwards’ report (op. cit.) of Hans Reiner on the Zeugungsproblem, of whether to bring a child into the world. Reiner argued that a positive answer presupposes an objective or existential meaning for life, what I term a generic and extraneous one, such that it is better for mankind to exist than not.

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