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References and further reading
Aquinas (c. 1257) ‘De Magistro’ (The Teacher), question 11 in Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate (Truth), vol. 2, trans. J.V. McGlynn, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1994.
(Aquinas’ treatise on teaching.)
Augustine (386) De ordine (On Order or Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil), trans. R.P. Russell in The Fathers of the Church: The Writings of Saint Augustine, vol. 1, ed. L. Schopp, New York: Cima Publishing Co., 1948, 229–332.
Augustine (386–9) Contra Academicos (Against the Academicians) and De magistro (The Teacher), trans., intro. and notes by P. King, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1995.
Augustine (397–426) De doctrina christiana (Christian Instruction), trans. J.J. Gavigan in Fathers of the Church: The Writings of Saint Augustine, vol. 4, ed. R. Deferrari, Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, Inc., 1947–66, 19–235.
Augustine (400) De catechizandis rudibus (Catechizing the Uninstructed), trans. J.P. Christopher, Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 1926.
Aristotle (c. 330) De Partibus Animalium (On the Parts of Animals), Greek text with trans. A. Peck in Aristotle, vol. 12, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Aristotle (c. 330) Nicomachean Ethics, trans. and notes T. Irwin, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1985.
(Aristotle’s main ethical work and an important source of his educational thought.)
Aristotle (c. 330) Politics, trans., intro. and notes by C. Lord, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
(Aristotle’s lectures on politics and the place of education in a good city.)
Ashcraft, R. (1991) John Locke: Critical Assessments, vol. 2, London: Routledge.
(Includes articles on Locke’s educational thought and related topics such as reason, natural law and toleration.)
Bacon, F. (1605–10) The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis, ed. A. Johnston, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
(Seminal works of the modern era on the condition and advancement of knowledge and human progress – they shaped the pedagogical proposals of J.A. Comenius and others.)
Beck, L.W. (1978) ‘Kant on Education’, in Essays on Kant and Hume, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Curren, R. (1997) Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education, Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
(A study in Aristotle’s educational politics which gives close attention to the influence of Plato’s Laws.)
Descartes (1628–49) The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vols 1 and 2, trans. J. Cottingham et al., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984–5.
Dewey, J. (1899) The School and Society, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
(A good introduction to Dewey’s educational thought.)
Dewey, J. (1902) The Child and the Curriculum, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
(Another early and accessible statement of Dewey’s educational philosophy.)
Dewey, J. (1909) Moral Principles in Education, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
Dewey, J. (1916) Democracy and Education, New York: Macmillan.
(Dewey’s most systematic work on education.)
Dewey, J. (1927) The Public and Its Problems, New York: Henry Holt.
Dewey, J. (1938) Experience and Education, New York: Macmillan.
Epictetus (c. 120) The Discourses as Reported by Arrian, The Manual, and Fragments, Greek text with trans. by W. Oldfather, 2 vols, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966–7.
Flower, E. and Murphey, M.G. (1977) A History of Philosophy in America, vol. 2, New York: Putnam.
(The long chapter on Dewey provides an excellent overview of his thought.)
Froebel, F. (1826) Die Menschenerziehung (The Education of Man), trans. W.N. Hailmann, Clifton, NJ: Keeley, 1974.
Garforth, F.W. (1980) Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Herbart, J.H. (1804–6) Über die ästhetische Darstellung der Welt als das Hauptgeschäft der Erziehung; Allgemeine Pädagogik aus dem Zweck der Erziehung abgeleitet (The Science of Education, Its General Principles Deduced From Its Aim, and the Aesthetic Revelation of the World), trans. with intro. H.M. Felkin and E. Felkin, Boston, MA: Heath, 1892.
Herbart, J.H. (1836) Umriß von pädagogischen Vorlesungen (Outlines of Educational Doctrine), trans. A.F. Lange, notes C. De Garmo, London: Macmillan, 1901.
Hobbes, T. (1651) Leviathan: Or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil, ed., intro. and notes E. Curley, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994.
Hobbes, T. (1668) Behemoth, ed. W. Molesworth, Source Works Series No. 38, New York: Burt Franklin Research, 1962.
Hook, S. (1946) Education For Modern Man: A New Perspective, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Kant, I. (1775–80) Eine Vorlesung Kants Über Ethik im Auftrage der Kantgesellschaft (Lectures on Ethics) trans. L. Infield, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980.
Kant, I. (1784–98) Political Writings, ed., intro. and notes H. Reiss, trans. H.B. Nisbet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Kant, I. (1803) Über Pädagogik (Kant on Education), trans. A. Churton, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1992.
Kraut, R. (1992) The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lloyd, S.A. (1992) Ideals as Interests in Hobbes’s Leviathan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Locke, J. (1689) Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Locke, J. (1690) Second Treatise of Government, ed. and intro. C.B. Macpherson, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980.
Locke, J. (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education, ed., intro. and notes J.W. Yolton and J.S. Yolton, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Locke, J. (1706) Of the Conduct of the Understanding, ed., intro. and notes T. Fowler, New York: Burt Franklin, 1971.
Maritain, J. (1943) Education at the Crossroads, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Marrou, H. (1956) A History of Education in Antiquity, trans. G. Lamb, London: Sheed & Ward.
Marrou, H. (1957) St. Augustine and His Influence Through the Ages, New York: Harper & Brothers.
Marx, K. (1845–6) Die deutsche Ideologie (The German Ideology), pt 1, with selections from pts 2 and 3, ed. C.J. Arthur, trans. W. Lough, C. Dutt and C.P. Magill, New York: International Publishers, 1974.
Marx, K. (1867) Das Kapital (Capital), vol. 1, ed. F. Engles, trans. S. Moore and Aveling, New York: International Publishers, 1967.
Masters, R.D. (1968) The Political Writings of Rousseau, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Mill, J.S. (1859) On Liberty, ed. E. Rapaport, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978.
Mill, J.S. (1867) ‘Inaugural Address at the University of St. Andrews’, in John Stuart Mill on Education, ed., intro. and notes F.W. Garforth, New York: Teachers College Press, 1971.
Mill, J.S. (1873) Autobiography, ed. R. Howson, New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.
Nehamas, A. (1992) ‘What Did Socrates Teach And To Whom Did He Teach It?’, Review of Metaphysics 46 (4): 279–306.
Nietzsche, F. (1872) Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten (On the Future of Our Educational Institutions), in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 3, ed. O. Levy, trans. J.M. Kennedy, New York: Russell & Russell, 1924.
Nietzsche, F. (1874) Schopenhauer als Erzieher (Schopenhauer as Educator), trans. J.W. Hillesheim and M.R. Simpson, Chicago, IL: Regnery Gateway, Inc., 1965.
Painter, F. (1889) Luther on Education, St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.
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Plato (390s–350s) Complete Works, ed. J. Cooper, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996.
Price, K. (1967) Education and Philosophical Thought, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2nd edn.
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) (c. 92) Institutio Oratoria (The Education of an Orator), vols. 1–4, text and trans. H.E. Butler, London: Heinemann, 1920–2.
Reeve, C.D.C. (1988) Philosopher-Kings, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Rousseau, J.-J. (1750–62) The Basic Political Writings of Jean–Jacques Rousseau, trans. D.A. Cress, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987.
Rousseau, J.-J. (1762) Émile, (or On Education), trans. A. Bloom, New York: Basic Books, 1979.
Schiller, F. (1795) Briefe über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen (On The Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters), trans. E.M. Wilkinson and L.A. Willoughby, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
Schouls, P. (1989) Descartes and the Enlightenment, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Sherman, N. (1989) The Fabric of Character, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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