PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOP-MENT OF EDUCATION:

GENERAL BACKGROUND

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Meaning and Relationship of Philos-ophy and Education

- It is a set of ideas formulated to understand the basic truth about the nature of being and thinking.

- The process of receiv-ing or giving system-atic

instruction.

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Meaning and Relationship of Philos-ophy and Education

- It is a set of ideas formulated to understand the basic truth about the nature of being and thinking.

- The process of receiv-ing or giving system-atic

instruction.

Relationship of Philosophy and Education

- philosophy is theory.- Education moves on in a specific direction.

- Education is practical in na-ture- Philosophy shows the way

It is philosophy that provides the purpose or the aim and it is

education which makes it useful.

FOUR AREAS OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Metaphysics2. Epistemology3. Logic 4. Axiology

EPISTEMOLOGYIS THE BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY THAT INQUIRES INTO THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH.

Problems:

• What is the nature of truth?• What can people know?• How reliable are these source?• What are the sources of knowl-

edge?

• What are the sources of knowl-edge?

Sources of knowledge

• Common Sense – Knowledge is bound di-rectly

to the customs and traditions.

• Authority – Knowledge is derived from the testimony of some authority.

• Intuition – Knowledge occurs on what psychologists call the subliminal level, beneath the “threshold” of consciousness. • Reason – Knowledge is derived through a se-

ries of inferences that connect ideas con-sciously so as to

arrive at judgements or conclusions. • Controlled Experience – By means of critical, exact and precise analyses of sense of obser-vations, it has advance knowledge by accumu-lating a body of

facts in a variety of fields.

• What can people know?

• How reliable are these source?

Types of Propositions

• Necessary Propositions – consist of

statements that become immedi-ately evident when asserted. • Synthetic Propositions – consist

of statements that contain predicates related to the subject through empir-ical verification: their truth is not internal to themselves but is discovered after-wards.

Types of Propositions

• A Priori Propositions – consist of statements that are asserted prior to or before the predicate is verified empirically. • A Posteriori Propositions – con-

sist statements containing predicates that are related to the subject after empirical verification.

Rationalist vs. Empiricists

• The Rationalist will argue that some

assertions can be accepted as true prior to any empirical verification.

• Empiricist states that if an asser-tion

cannot be verified empirically, it is without meaning.

• What is the nature of truth?

Theories of truth

1. Coherence – (logical consistency) asserts that truth is a property of a body of ideas.

2. Correspondence – proposes the notion that truth exists when the idea in a subject’s mind is in accord (correspond) with the object it describes.

Theories of truth

4. Skepticism – denies the possibility of

ever achieving truth. Because our knowledge is confined to sense information, it is never possible to obtain a complete, true knowledge of the objective world.

3. Pragmatism – affirms that the meaning

or truth of anything is found in its consequences.

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