Personal Educational Philosophy "To understand history, you must grasp how your everyday view of the world developed, how it was created by the reality of the people who lived before you. ... In order to fully explain why I agree with the existentialist philosophy, I should point out why I feel this will help my ability to teach my students. ... I plan on lecturing for the first half of my class and letting the students share their thoughts in the remaining half of the class. ... History, itself, is easy to grade. ... My educational philosophy is simple: let individuals express who th...

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My philosophy, I share with a small percentage of the population, is based on the idea the education is a science. ... The word or notion of morals no longer has the same definition as when Socrates lectured to the youth of Athens. ... In conclusion, the answer to our question is, the philosophers of another era would most probably need to rethink and readjust their entire thinking prior to lecturing to today's youth. ... I think Socrates would hold lectures in Lincoln Center with the only audience that would be there and willing to absorb his philosophy. ... We are by far the only pup...

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He lectured for years on The Sentences and compiled two commentaries on them that he used as his personal texts for his lectures. ... It is here that he spent his last year lecturing, and then died on November 8, 1308.. ... Like Aquinas, Scotus was a realist in philosophy, but he differed from Aquinas on certain basic issues. ... In the 20th century the influence of Scotist philosophy was still strong within the church. ... For Scotus, theology and philosophy were distinct and separate disciplines; they were, however, complementary, because theology uses philosophy as a tool. ...

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(Redfield, 1994) I have chosen to become a history professor to open the minds of college students who have despised history, not because of the contents of what they are taught, but because of the way that they were taught. ... In order to fully explain why I agree with the existentialist philosophy, I should point out why I feel this will help my ability to teach my students. ... I plan on lecturing for the first half of my class and letting the students share their thoughts in the remaining half of the class. ... History, itself, is easy to grade. ... My educational philosophy is simp...

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"Sophie's World," by Jostein Gaarder, is a fictional mystery philosophy novel that narrates the history of philosophy through someone named Albert Knag who is writing a book for his daughter, Hilde Moller Knag, for her fifteenth birthday. ... Gaarder's book clearly narrates the history of philosophy through the lessons given to Sophie Amundsen by Alberto Knox. ... Like the Lego blocks on the lecture about Democritus' atom theory. ... Gaarder easily nourishes the minds of the young with the history of philosophy and philosophers and their philosophies. ... Gaarder wrote an exce...

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(Hume, Video Lectures 3 & 6) Considering the timing of the conflict in the theory of the Civil War, the breakdown in the two-party system created a panic which erupted into war. ... The cause of the Civil War was not the issue of slavery but, instead, the cause was whether slavery could expand geographically (Hume, Video Lecture 3). ... (Hume, Video Lecture 6) Texas was a controversy. ... (Hume, Video Lecture 4 & 5) There were four political positions to be looked at in the forming of the Civil War. ... (Hume, Video Lecture 5) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of the 1850's proved to be the nex...

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William James History of Psychology, William James was one of the forefathers of modern psychology. ... After only five years as an assistant professor, in 1885 James became a professor of philosophy. ... In many ways the two-volume work was as much psychology as it was philosophy. ... Pragmatism is a philosophy that attempts to apply the methods of science to philosophy (Singer, 2002). ... James's commitment to pragmatism was first introduced in 1898, during a lecture given at Berkley. ...

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Philosophy of Education "It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. ... The differences lie in our specific philosophies or applications of educational philosophy, or in other words "an approach." ... This philosophy entails a combination of essentialism and progressivism(Ryan &Cooper, p. 313-316). ... Reading, writing, arithmetic, and history are the tools we give our children to carry on the values we have established for them All societies and cultures, whether tribal, monarchical, dicta...

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Since the standard beginning of philosophy on May 23, 585 B.C., the world has seen some very brilliant and gifted philosophers. ... Thales of Miletus, who many regard as the "father" of philosophy, is credited for actually beginning philosophy. ... His prediction was proven correct, and ever since, philosophy has continued. ... They wandered about Greece from place to place, gave lectures, took pupils, and entered into disputations. ... Topics included rhetoric, politics, grammar, etymology, history, physics, and mathematics. ...

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The first two tablets deal with the history of Thoth and the Atlantis legend. ... The next eight are short lectures discussing various basic points of Hermetic philosophy. Next is a summary of lectures, followed by a set of four discourses touching on the more mystical aspects of Hermeticism. Hermeticism itself has a history of political strife. ... The Hermetic texts have interested scholars throughout history and still are available for reading today. ...

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In many ways the two-volume work was as much psychology as it was philosophy. ... Pragmatism is a philosophy that attempts to apply the methods of science to philosophy (Singer, 2002). ... James's commitment to pragmatism was first introduced in 1898, during a lecture given at Berkley. During this lecture James restated Pierce's ideas in more popular language. ... With this course being about the history of psychology, my interest was piqued when I again heard the name William James mentioned as one of the most influential psychologist of all time. ...

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Also, he did not go to most lectures, and showed little interest in what was to be learned. ... The group was organized in part due to the philosophy teacher Hegel that taught from 1818 to his death. ... It carried the title "The Difference Between the Philosophies of Nature of Democrtius and Epicurus."... He passed it in early April, and got his degree in history and philosophy in April 15, 1841. ... Marx is considerate to be the greater of the two philosophies. ...

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Sophie's World presents the history of philosophy in the form of a novel. A young girl learns about life and philosophy. ... Soon Sophie finds herself taking a complete course in philosophy from an anonymous philosopher. ... Sophie learns about medieval philosophy while being lectured by a monk in an ancient church, and she learns about Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in a French cafe. ... Sophie's World teaches philosophy and it explains basic philosophical ideas better than any other reading book or textbook that I have ever read. ...

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His uncle then enabled him to enter the University of Krakow,which was famous at the time for its mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy curriculum. In 1500, Copernicus visited Rome and stayed there for a year lecturing scholars. ... At this point in western history, europeans believed that the universe was a closed space bounded by a spherical dome and beyond it there was nothing. ...

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She was educated in both private and public schools with interests focusing on philosophy and the sciences. ... (Gale Encyclopedia) In the fall following her doctorate, Washburn moved to Wells College as a professor of psychology, philosophy and ethics. ... In addition to accolades from her students and fellow professors, she was the second woman in history to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences(Gale Encyclopedia). ... Among her years at Vassar she was a well-liked professor, students commenting, "Miss Washburn's lectures were brilliant, exact, clear, with such a wealth of ...

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His philosophical theories set the standard for modern-day philosophy. ... In Athens he attended hundreds of lectures by another great Greek philosopher, Plato (Ross 17). ... The rediscovery of Aristotle's work sparked a new light in the study of both Aristotle and philosophy in general. ... (www.utm.edu/research/aristotl.htm) His writings can be broken into five smaller subcategories, which are logic, physical works, psychological works, works on natural history, philosophical works. ... Aristotle set the standard for modern philosophy and will never be forg...

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In his twenties, Smith, arranged to give a series of public lectures in Edinburgh. ... A year later he transferred to the professor of moral philosophy and taught political economics, ethics and natural theology. ... Where he lectured five days a week and later in 1758 became dean of Glasgow University. ... Upon his return Smith was elected to the Royal Society where he met other philosophies. ... The Wealth of Nations was Adam Smith's masterpiece that propelled him into economic history. ...

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This is "the Thoreau of the journals and later natural history projects," as Rochelle Johnson identifies the turn to Thoreau's more ecocentric work of the 1850s, focusing her attention on the abstractions of Emerson's rhetorical nature--that is, nature as raw material of tropes and symbols--in order to contrast the transcendental aesthetics Thoreau must overcome. ... While ecocriticism of Thoreau and Emerson has thus tended to dichotomize ecology and imagination in terms of the empirical versus the metaphorical, and in the service of sharply distinguishing Thoreau's ecocentrism ...

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., she enrolled at the University of California at San Diego, where she began pursuing her master's degree, and career as of professor of philosophy. ... In 1970, Davis became only the third woman in history to appear on the FBI's most wanted list. ... Davis has lectured in all of the fifty United States, as well as in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union. ... It gives one a sense of history and culture. ...

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., she enrolled at the University of California at San Diego, where she began pursuing her master's degree, and career as of professor of philosophy. ... In 1970, Davis became only the third woman in history to appear on the FBI's most wanted list. ... Davis has lectured in all of the fifty United States, as well as in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union. ... It gives one a sense of history and culture. ...

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He demonstrated a talent for math and physics, but his interest was in philosophy, to which he applied his analytical skills and tireless inquiry for the rest of his life. He later studied at Oxford, although he wasn't satisfied with the education provided at the famous university, and later returned to Scotland to lecture in Edinburgh. Smith gained fame as an intellectual in 1759, when he published of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", which was based on his lectures from Edinburgh and Glasgow, where he was Professor of Logic and then Professor of Moral Philosophy for thirteen years. .....

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Emile Durkheim 1858-1917 Emile Durkheim can be recognized as one of the top sociologists in history. ... Durkheim met different philosophers and in time gained so much interest in the field that he became a philosophy teacher at Bordeaux. While teaching, Durkheim stressed the importance of sociology and lectured the history of studies and theories that were concluded. ... He not only taught and lectured the importance of philosophy, but also conducted experiments to figure out the exact reasoning of a person's decisions. ...

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Members to attend lectures and study American history and take part in debates . ... The class's he took were science, history, economics, sociology, and philosophy. ... At school took economics, politics, and history, couldn't take philosophy. ... In 1895, desertion was accepted by Harvard got his PhD in philosophy . ... To make them support the Tuskegee philosophy the attacks were attack. ...

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One of the principles of designing policies and programs for cross-cultural work is to be " aware that the individual and collective history has a considerable bearing on any problem" and that " history is a crucial factor in social life" ( HSA 2101 Lecture Notes.2003 ). ... This philosophy sets out rules and values pertaining to traditional kinship, which define a person's identity, relationship and obligation to others and emphasises the principle of " reciprocity" and "responsibility". According to Hartley ( 1992, p. 52 ) " Aboriginal history is based on the group and its continuit...

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