TEACHERS COLLEGE THEORY OF EDUCATION AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY PREPARED BY O. MUTOVOSI (Principal Lecturer) MEd (Phil of Ed); B Tech - Ed Mgt; Bed (Pry Ed); DipEd (Pry Ed) QUESTIONS: What is it? Does it exist? Do Africans have a philosophy? Can Africans philosophise? • Because of a legacy of denigration that portrays Africans as incapable of abstract thought‚ the question‚ ‘What is African Philosophy?’ is the first that occurs to those outside the field of philosophy. • There has been extensive undermining
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1 Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction The Mind-Body Problem: Five Philosophical Observations: 1) You have a mind and a body 2) These normally work together 3) Your body is physical and‚ thus‚ publicly observable 4) Your mental life is essentially private; no one else can feel your pain‚ or experience the images you do; and unlike the physical realm the mental realm is not publicly observable‚ therefore‚ 5) You have privileged access to the contents of your own mind 2 Consciousness
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Lovers of Wisdom Ancient Greek philosophy arouse in the 6th century BCE‚ some claim that Greek Philosophy was influenced by the older wisdom literature and mythological cosmogonies of the Ancient Greek Near East. Greeks had confidence in the power of the mind Greeks used observation and reason to determine why things happened‚ they opened up a new way of looking at human existence. During the time of Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle it was a crime to investigate the things above the heavens
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American University of Central Asia Existence of God Thomas Aquinas‚ Rene Descartes Sydykova Aizirek Introduction to philosophy Beishegul Alieva 11.03.2013 There are different questions of reality. Each man on the earth wants to know some things obviously‚ but there are some of them which people cannot obviously prove‚ for example how world was created‚ existence of God‚ what morality‚ justice‚ knowledge
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the Enlightenment knowledge to other countries around the world. As the Enlightenment developed into the mid 1700‚ an obvious shift occurred away from the reason-based philosophies of most of the leading English and French thinkers. The new philosophies that developed veered to take one of two major courses. Romanticism‚ a philosophy greatly attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ highlighted emotions and a return to the natural state of man. Skepticism‚ which increased importance under Scottish philosopher
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or reducing their inclination to commit crimes as a result of correctional treatments. The fallacy in this expectation is that the correctional system in reality handles an extremely small percentage of criminals. The correctional funnel shown in Figure 1.2 illustrates this phenomenon; there is a large numerical difference between the number of crimes reported and the number of offenders convicted and facing any specific correctional sanction. As illustrated in Figure 1.2‚ of approximately 10 million
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DEFINITION OF PHILOSOPHY AND NATURE OF PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY. The term philosophy is Greek word from two words. These are: philos which means love or desire and Sophia which means wisdom (Pojman and Vaughn). So a philosopher is the one who searches for knowledge by asking questions .This paper aims at the definition of philosophy and nature of philosophical enquiry. Any given field of inquiry has philosophical roots and extensions. In general‚ philosophy is both an activity involving thinking about
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SCOPE & FUNCTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Unit Structure 1.0 Objectives 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Meaning of the Philosophy and Education 1.3 Concept of Philosophy of Education 1.4 Scope of Philosophy of Education 1.5 Nature of Philosophy of Education Modes of Philosophical Inquiry 1.6 Functions of Philosophy of Education 1.7 Relationship between Philosophy of Teaching and Teaching Styles This unit deals with the concept of ‗Meaning ‚ Scope‚ Nature and Functions of Philosophy of Education‘ and hence
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Inward Aristotelian philosophy‚ some two thousand three hundred years old‚ is perhaps one of the most influential philosophies in history. After being preserved by Arab scholars during the fall of Rome‚ the teachings of Aristotle were found by Christians during the dark ages. His works‚ including Nichomachean Ethics‚ were of great influence to many Christian philosophers during medieval times‚ but soon philosophies began to shift‚ marking the conception of the Enlightenment. Philosophy took a drastic
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1.0 Educational Philosophy 1.1 Introduction There are five main philosophical schools of thought in education which are essentialism‚ perennialism‚ progressivism‚ existentialism and reconstructionism. However‚ here I have only chosen the philosophies which believe in student-centred approach. There are three philosophies that hold the similarity of being less authoritarian and placing the students as the centre in learning process. These three philosophies reject essentialism and do not agree with
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