The anti-Emile
Subtitle: reflections on the theory and practice of education against the principles of Rousseau
By: by H.S. Gerdil ; an English translation, with introduction and notes by William A. Frank
Contributors: Frank, William A.
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: South Bend, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781587310362
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Education
Work titles: Reflexions sur la théorie & la pratique de l'éducation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rousseau's seductive rhetoric; title: Emile is an unreal abstraction; title: Whether contrariety is part of man's original nature; title: Whether the self is ordered to other selves from the beginning; title: Whether self-interest is a sufficient foundation for moral social relationships; title: Love of honor and the attraction to an idea of perfection are natural inclinations; title: The attraction to moral virtue is a natural inclination; title: Whether society corrupts man's natural goodness; title: Whether society invents the fear of death and makes men cowards; title: Whether laws and society reduce man to a servile state of dependency; title: On the natural love of order and origins of society; title: Man's reason, the natural analogue to animal instinct, requires education; title: Whether children are capable of understanding moral categories; title: On the importance of the fear of God in the moral education of children; title: On the authority of fathers and the obedience of children; title: On reasoning with children; title: Rousseau's dialogue misrepresents how to reason morally with a child; title: On a child's capacity for handling ideas; title: On teaching fables; title: On the study of languages, and especially latin; title: On the study of history; title: On the study of geography; title: On the study of geometry; title: Francis Bacon's observations on studying and reading; title: The intellectual temperament of Rousseau's student; title: On the native climate of the ideal student; title: On the ideal student's physical constitution; title: On the social status of Rousseau's student; title: Insufficiency of philosophy for forming a national ethos.