SEMESTER 1
‘He who still doubts has not yet learnt enough, yet we doubt as long as we live; and so as long as we live we should learn’ (Ficino, M. (1997) Meditations on the Soul, Rochester: Inner Traditions.)
‘To know oneself is to contradict oneself’ (Hyppolite, J. (1952/1997) Logic and Existence, New York, SUNY).
Week 1
What is Learning?
Reading
Schön, D. (1987) Educating the Reflective Practitioner, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 82-95.
T.S. Eliot The Four Quartets,
Week 2
What is Learning?
Reading
Plato, (1987) The Trial and Death of Socrates, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, trans. G.M.A. Grube
Wider reading
Stone, I. (1988) The Trial of Socrates, London: Jonathan Cape.
Hogan, P. (1995) The Custody and Courtship of Experience, Blackrock, The Columba Press.
Popper, K. (1962) The Open Society and its Enemies, London: Routledge.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1974) Lectures on the History of Philosophy vol. 1, New Jersey: Humanities Press.
Kierkegaard, S. (1989) The Concept of Irony, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Augustine, (1972) City of God, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 301-2.
Week 3
Human culture
Reading
Jaeger, W. (1973) Paideia The Ideals of Greek Culture, vol. I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. xxii-xxv, 280, 286-314.
Week 4
Rhetoric (Isocrates)
Reading
Jaeger, W. (1986) Paideia The Ideals of Greek Culture, vol. III, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 46-9, 61-3, 89.
Isocrates, ‘Panegyricus’ in Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980; 47-50.
Isocrates, ‘Nicocles or the Cyprians,’ in Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980, 1-9.
Isocrates, ‘Antodosis,’ in Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929, vol. II, pp. 327-9.
Cicero, (1967) De Oratore Books 1 & 2, trans. E.W Sutton, London: Heinemann, i.71-8, ii. 5-7.
Week 5
Philosophy (Plato’s Republic)
Reading
Plato, (1992) The Republic, London: Dent.
Week 6
Philosophy (Plato’s Republic)
Reading
Plato, (1992) The Republic, London: Dent.
Week 7
The Liberal Arts Tradition
Reading
Kimball, B.A. (1986) Orators and Philosophers, a history of the idea of liberal education, New York: Teachers College Press, chapter II.
Week 8
Modern enlightenment and principles (Kant)
Reading
Kant, I. (1990) ‘What is Enlightenment?’ in Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, New York: Macmillan Press.
Kant, I. (1956) Critique of Practical Reason, (London, Macmillan), pp. 30-5, 57, and Conclusion.
Kant, I. (1990) Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, New York: Macmillan Press, pp. 29-33, 38, 44-57.
Kant, I. (1991) Kant, Political Writings, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press), ed. Hans Reiss, pp. 64-72.
Week 9
market freedom (Adam Smith)
Reading
Smith, A. (1958) The Wealth of Nations, London, Dent, Book V, article II, pp. 245-271.
Week 10
Kant in action: taxation and education
Reading
Lecture notes
Wider Reading
Brighouse, H. (2002) ‘A Modest Defence of School Choice’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 653-659.
Tooley, J. (2003) ‘Why Harry Brighouse is Nearly Right about the Privatisation of Education’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 440-447.
Cox, C.B. & Boyson, R. (eds.) (1977) Black Paper London, Temple Smith, pp.8-9.
Davies, M. and Edwards, G. (2001) ‘Will the Curriculum Caterpillar Ever Learn to Fly?’ in Mike Fielding (ed.) Taking Education Really Seriously: Four Years Hard Labour, London, RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 96-107.
Lawton, D. (1994) The Tory Mind on Education, London: Falmer Press.
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icons, London: Morehouse Publishing.
Week 11
existential freedom (Sartre)
Reading
Sartre, J.P. (2007) Existentialism and Humanism, London, Methuen.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm
Kaufmann, W. (1959) The Owl and the Nightingale, London: Faber and Faber: chapter 1.
Humboldt, (1993) The Limits of State Action, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, pp. 55-7
Wider reading
Kaufmann, W. (1956) Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, New York, Meridian Books.
Kaufmann, W. (1976) Existentialism, Religion and Death, New York, New American Library.
Macquarrie, J. (1972) Existentialism, Harmondsworth, Penguin.
Warnock, M. (1970) Existentialism, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Davis, W.A. (1989) Inwardness and Existence, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press.
Flynn, T.R. (2006) Existentialism a very short introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Roberts, D.E. (1959) Existentialism and Religious Belief, New York, Oxford University Press.
Week 12
learning freedom?