Full Description
After setting Augustine's thought firmly within the context of his life and times, Ryan Topping examines in turn the causes of education (the purposes, pedagogy, curriculum, and limits of learning) as Augustine understood them. Augustine's towering influence over Medieval and Renaissance theorists - from Hugh of St Victor, to Aquinas, to Erasmus - is traced. The book concludes by drawing Augustine into dialogue with contemporary philosophers, exploring the influence of his meditations on higher education and suggesting how his ideas can reinvigorate for our generation the project of liberal learning.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I. Intellectual Biography
1. Approaching Augustine
Part II. Critical Exposition
2. The Aims of Education
3. The Art of the Teacher
4. The Matter of Liberal Education
5. The Limits to Education
Part III. Philosophical Reception and Relevance
6. Augustine and Some Philosophers of Education
7. St. Augustine and The Defense of Liberal Education
Select Bibliography
Index