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- W98381683 abstract "Asked to write a paper on philosophy of religious education, I have pondered long and hard the complexity of the task. The first confusion, not easy to dispel, is with the word philosophy itself. Philosophy is not a univocal word since it means different things to its many practitioners. Western philosophy, which will be the focus of this paper, began as an attempt to go beyond the Greek poets in explaining the world and directing people’s lives. Thus philosophy has always had a connection with education. It has also had for centuries a close connection with religion. My pondering the role of philosophy in religious education led me to review a life long study of philosophers and philosophies. In this review I will note how other religious educators have drawn on philosophy for their work. Next I will explain some of the main thrusts of ancient Greek philosophy. Finally, I will draw implications for theory and practice of religious education. My introduction to philosophy came as a seminary student who was required to study philosophy for two years before beginning the study of theology. The philosophy of Neo-Scholasticism or Neo-Thomism, a modern version of the philosophy of the 13th century Dominican friar Thomas Aquinas, was to serve as ancilla theologiae, the handmaid of Scholastic theology. In studying the modern interpreters of St. Thomas and other 13th century philosophers the subjects were logic, epistemology, ontology or metaphysics, theodicy, philosophical psychology and ethics. The approach was rational, at times close to the reasoning and proofs one finds in mathematics. The most interesting course for me, however, was history of philosophy in which I was introduced in a year long course to the most prominent philosophers of the West. Each philosopher was critiqued according to how he (they were all men) agreed with or departed from the one true philosophy, which" @default.
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- W98381683 title "Ancient Philosophy and Religious Education: Education as Initiation into a Way of Life" @default.
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