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The anti-Emile : reflections on the theory and practice of education against the principles of Rousseau
Reflexions sur la théorie & la pratique de l'éducation. English
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- Creator
- by H.S. Gerdil ; an English translation, with introduction and notes by William A. Frank
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- English
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- South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2011
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- xlii,174 pages; 24 cm
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- 9781587310362, 1587310368
- OCLC
- ocn697267453
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Rousseau's seductive rhetoric -- Emile is an unreal abstraction -- Whether contrariety is part of man's original nature -- Whether the self is ordered to other selves from the beginning -- Whether self-interest is a sufficient foundation for moral social relationships -- Love of honor and the attraction to an idea of perfection are natural inclinations -- The attraction to moral virtue is a natural inclination -- Whether society corrupts man's natural goodness -- Whether society invents the fear of death and makes men cowards -- Whether laws and society reduce man to a servile state of dependency -- On the natural love of order and origins of society -- Man's reason, the natural analogue to animal instinct, requires education -- Whether children are capable of understanding moral categories -- On the importance of the fear of God in the moral education of children -- On the authority of fathers and the obedience of children -- On reasoning with children -- Rousseau's dialogue misrepresents how to reason morally with a child -- On a child's capacity for handling ideas -- On teaching fables -- On the study of languages, and especially latin -- On the study of history -- On the study of geography -- On the study of geometry -- Francis Bacon's observations on studying and reading -- The intellectual temperament of Rousseau's student -- On the native climate of the ideal student -- On the ideal student's physical constitution -- On the social status of Rousseau's student -- Insufficiency of philosophy for forming a national ethos