The anti-Emile : reflections on the theory and practice of education against the principles of Rousseau / H.S. Gerdil ; translation, introductory essay, and notes by William A. Frank.

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Author/Creator:

Gerdil, Giacinto Sigismondo, 1718-1802.

Language:

English

Imprint:

South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, c2011.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Contributor:

Frank, William A.

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ISBN:

9781587310362
1587310368