Final Review Flashcards
Thomas Aquinas
combined religion and scholasticism to create Neo-scholasticism
William James
Pragmatism - The attitude of looking away from first things, principles, categories, supposed necessities; and looking toward last things, fruits, consequences and facts
Soren Kierkegaard
Existentialism - construction of knowledge
Friedrich Nietzsche
existentialism and postmodernism (reconstructivism)
Richard Rorty
“philosophy is dead”; neo-pragmatism - one can have opinions but not truth
Jacques Derrida
deconstructionism
Michal Foucault
knowledge is not value free; it empowers. Knowledge is socially constructed by those in power
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Progressive Education - Romantic Naturalism
William Kilpatrick
Progressive Education - Foundations of Method (project method)
George Counts
Progressive Education - Dare the School to Build a New Social Order
Harold Rugg
Progressive Education - The Child Centered School
Carl Rogers
educational humanism
William Glasser
school’s w/o failure
John Holt
unschooling/deschooling
Ludwig Wittgenstein
analytic philosophy
Auguste Comte
positivism; influenced behaviorism
Robert Hutchins
perenialism; Great Books
Mortimer Adler
perenialism; Great Books
E. D. Hirsch
essentialist; nation at risk report; Core knowledge (standard general knowledge)
Frontier thinkers
Rugg, Counts
Materialism
Rejection of all beliefs about mind, spirit, and consciousness
Absolute Being
Idealism
Unmoved Mover
Realism
Being of Pure Reason
Neo-scholasticism
Leap of faith
Kierkegaard and existentialism
