Bøker av Alexander Meiklejohn

Frontmatter -- INHALT -- VORWORT -- Buch I: Protestantisch-kapitalistische Erziehung -- Kapitel 1. Von der Kirche zum Staat -- Kapitel 2. Johann Arnos Comenius -- Kapitel 3. John Locke -- Kapitel 4. Matthew Arnold -- Kapitel 5. Die Kräfte des Zerfalls -- Buch II: Das Problem des Neuaufbaues -- Kapitel 6. Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Kapitel 7. Der Erste der Modernen -- Kapitel 8. Gewohnheit und Einsicht -- Kapitel 9. Der Lehrer dient zwei Herren -- Buch III: Die Pragmatische Episode - Eine Studie über John Dewey -- Kapitel 10. Allgemeine Grundzüge des Pragmatismus -- Kapitel 11. Die Kampfparolen des Pragmatismus -- Kapitel 12. Wissen und Einsicht -- Kapitel 13. Die Staatstheorie -- Kapitel 14. Die Theorie der Demokratie -- Buch IV: Der Gesellschaftsvertrag als Grundlage der Erziehung -- Kapitel 15. Die Lehre von der Brüderlichkeit -- Kapitel 16. Rousseaus Weisung -- Kapitel 17. Vernunft ist ein Kulturfaktor -- Kapitel 18. Die Quantität der Vernunft -- Kapitel 19. Die Qualität der Vernunft -- Kapitel 20. Der Staat und das Individuum -- Kapitel 21. Die allgemeine Erziehungstheorie -- Anhang: Neigung und Pflicht (Eine Rede über Kant)

America's passion for "liberty," writes Alexander Meiklejohn, has blinded her to the real meaning of "freedom." It is freedom, not liberty, that lies at the heart of democracy, and we may be in danger of losing both. Our fetish of independence has permitted us to condone slavery, the betrayal of Indians and Blacks, and "the humiliation of the spirit of women . . . the crowning insult which a society has offered to the personalities of its own members." In this challenging essay, sensitively and scrupulously argued, one of America's most original social philosophers sums up the fallacies that have confused our purpose and recalls us to the methods of inquiry that led Socrates and Jesus to their supreme insights, "Know yourself" and "Love your neighbor."

Written in the midst of World War II, this book makes a strong argument for the crucial importance of education as the solution to the dilemmas with which our Anglo-Saxon culture was nurtured, with particular emphasis on the work of John Dewey and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Written in the midst of World War II, this book makes a strong argument for the crucial importance of education as the solution to the dilemmas with which our Anglo-Saxon culture was nurtured, with particular emphasis on the work of John Dewey and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Established at the University of Wisconsin in 1927 by educational theorist Alexander Meiklejohn, the ""Experimental College"" was a small residence-based programme within the university that provided a core curriculum of liberal education of two years of college. This is a record of the experiment.