PHIL 1252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Dewey, General Idea, Louis Althusser
3 Oct 2016
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Didactics: how to give lessons: materials, lessons, testing the art of how to teach. Primary school: 2-3 classes, needed to learn grammar. Needed to go to university to learn rhetoric, liberal arts, mathematics, etc. When you wanted to get job, get a degree. If you wanted to get doctorate: lawyer, doctor, or theology. Schools: they fostered the dialectical skills: the art of debating, discussing. Students: were trained to argue a certain way, and then switch point of view the following day. The logic, a practical skill, for jobs and such. And the very base of the existence of god. Intimate connection, of the scientific paradigm of the time and the dialectics of the schools. Theology: best science: because it dealt with the most important, true subject; god. The more abstract was a subject, the more true were it. But contemporary , it"s the opposite, everything needs to pass through our senses.
