Jean-Jacques Ampère, a successful merchant, was an admirer of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theories of education ( as outlined in his treatise Émile ) were the basis of Ampère ’ s education.

During this period the Muslim world became an intellectual centre for science, philosophy, medicine and education as the Abbasids championed the cause of knowledge and established the " House of Wisdom " ( Arabic: بيت الحكمة ) in Baghdad.

Cognitive science consists of multiple research disciplines, including psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and education.

The European Age of Empires saw European ideas of education in philosophy, religion, arts and sciences spread out across the globe.

As an academic field, philosophy of education is a " the philosophical study of education and its problems ... its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy ".

" The philosophy of education may be either the philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of education.

" As such, it is both part of the field of education and a field of applied philosophy, drawing from fields of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches ( speculative, prescriptive, and / or analytic ) to address questions in and about pedagogy, education policy, and curriculum, as well as the process of learning, to name a few.

His education was not confined to athletics: he also studied painting and philosophy under the masters Prodicus and Anaxagoras.

That same year, philosopher John Dewey moved from the University of Michigan to the newly established University of Chicago where he became chair of the department of philosophy, psychology and education.

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

It is through such reflection that literature approaches philosophy.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

No one can be as effective as the president in inspiring older men to welcome imaginative new teachers whose philosophy or approach to their specialties is quite different.

It is his relentlessness and unwaivering adherence to this revolutionary artistic philosophy that has enabled him to paint such pictures as `` The Invasion of Cuba ''.

A parallel function for philosophy is the study of the relation between perceptions experientially received and conceptions logically formed.

It is absurd to speak of philosophy as a superior enterprise to sociology, since the former is a logical, rational discipline, where sociology is essentially descriptive and empirical.

But contrary to Whitehead, philosophy is not a synonym for Plato.

The notion of philosophy as Queen Bee may fit well with authoritarian modes of political ideology, but it has been noted that the price of such an imperial notion of philosophy is the frustration and flagellation of the social sciences.

It is a commonplace that to the degree these special preserves of past philosophic hunting grounds establish an empirical content and suitable methodological criteria, they move away from philosophy as such.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

In the new situation, philosophy is able to provide the social sciences with the same guidance that mathematics offers the physical sciences, a reservoir of logical relations that can be used in framing hypotheses having explanatory and predictive value.

) Whatever philosophy is conceived to be, its rationalist, logistic attitude to evidence should make it clear that it is something other than science.

Bergson and Leroy announce that `` the secret is the center of a philosophy '' and thereafter a hundred followers declare secrecy a higher verity.

In addition to the incompleteness of science and the completeness of metaphysics, they differ in that science is essentially descriptive, while philosophy in its inherited forms, tends to be goal-oriented, teleological and prescriptive.

Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, Mr. Reama said: `` A Socialist is a person who believes in dividing everything he does not own ''.

Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.

And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art, their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance, new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written.

For some forms of philosophy, this very division between the empirical and the rational becomes a sign of the metaphysical superiority of the latter.

The anarcho-capitalist flag is also widely used by voluntaryists, whose philosophy is very similar.

Bliss had a lifelong interest in the organization, structure and philosophy of knowledge and was very critical of the library classification systems that were available to him.

This conceptualization is very broad, and should not be confused with how " cognitive " is used in some traditions of analytic philosophy, where " cognitive " has to do only with formal rules and truth conditional semantics.

The Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam, reject from its very beginning kaitava-dharma or false philosophy, thus it frankly speaks about the principle of material life, and it does have a meaningful relation to celibacy.

Hume's anti-rationalism has been very influential, and defended in contemporary philosophy of action by neo-Humeans such as Michael Smith and Simon Blackburn.

The yin and yang symbol in actuality has very little to do with Western dualism ; instead it represents the philosophy of balance, where two opposites co-exist in harmony and are able to transmute into each other.

* the stories are filled with digressions into philosophy, the complete texts of official documents, and much more, making for very long books ;

The concept was very similar to Interpedia, but more in line with Stallman's GNU philosophy.

Then professor Weierstrass became very ill. Husserl became free to return to Vienna where, after serving a short military duty, he devoted his attention to philosophy.

Two prominent Canadian authors ( both very hostile to the " Chicago School " philosophy ) argue that government at times has to intervene to ensure competition in large and important industries.

Often referred to as Gaianism, or the Gaian Religion, this spiritual aspect of the philosophy is very broad and inclusive, making it adaptable to other religions: Taoism, Neo-Paganism, Pantheism, Judeo-Christian Religions, and many others.

He later repudiated the philosophy he espoused in this book as being fascistic, but it remained very influential.

The punishments tended to be very harsh by modern standards, with many offenses resulting in death, disfigurement, or the use of the " Eye for eye, tooth for tooth " ( Lex Talionis " Law of Retaliation ") philosophy.

For McTaggart " philosophy can give us very little, if any, guidance in action ... Why should a Hegelian citizen be surprised that his belief as to the organic nature of the Absolute does not help him in deciding how to vote?

Lippmann's quarrel was with those very principles and institutions, for they are the product of the pre-scientific and pre-historical viewpoint and what for him was a groundless natural rights political philosophy.

A very comprehensive book on Popper's philosophy by an accomplished Popperian.

Another one of his very important contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his famous Abhinavabhāratī commentary of Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni.

Logical positivists typically considered philosophy as having a very limited function.

In the historical relationship between metaphysics and philosophy of religion, the traditional objects of religious discussion have been very special sorts of entities ( such as gods, angels, supernatural forces, and the like ) and events, abilities, or processes ( the creation of the universe, the ability to do or know anything, interaction between humans and gods, and so forth ).

Islamic political philosophy, was, indeed, rooted in the very sources of Islam, i. e. the Qur ' an and the Sunnah, the words and practices of Muhammad.