EDPS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Renaissance Humanism, Anti-Intellectualism
31 Jan 2017
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What does it mean to be an educated individual. The fallible human being study mastery of truth and goodness merits political power and allegiance. Plato replaced the idea of intellectual critic with the guardian whose absolute. Plato there is a universal reality through multiple years of guided, rigorous. Aristotle believe in an absolute reality and in an ultimate force that. Concluded that we are by nature rational animals transcends the world that humans inhabit. The rational animal: differentiate us from other animals is the ability to contemplate the universe and wonder about the meaning of the world. Educations role is to create an environment that nurtures the individuals. Idealists versus realists rational potential and actualizes it the highest degree possible ideas and that human beings possessed a microscopic version of this absolute mind/soul within their being. Plato existence of a cosmic soul or absolute mind comprised of all eternal: education is a birthing process a movement from the inside out.
