‘Total Transformation’: Why Kant Did Not Give up on Education

Kantian Review 21 (3):393-413 (2016)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In this essay I argue that Kant remained committed to the necessity and fundamental importance of education throughout his career. Like Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–90), Kant holds that a ‘total transformation’ of schools is necessary, and he holds this view not only in the 1770s but in his later years as well. In building my case I try to refute two recent opposing interpretations – Reinhard Brandt’s position that Kant’s early ‘education enthusiasm’ was later replaced by a politics enthusiasm, and Manfred Kuehn’s view that the increasing importance of autonomy in Kant’s mature ethics leads him to de-emphasize education.

Similar books and articles

Philosophy of Education in a Poor Historical Moment: A Personal Account.Ilan Gur-Zeev - 2011 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 30 (5):477-483.
What Kant Would Have Said in the Refugee Crisis.Peter Niesen - 2017 - Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 50:83-106.
Kant and the Liberal Arts: A Defense.Kristi Sweet - 2015 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 49 (3):1-14.
Anthropology, History, and Education.Robert B. Louden & Günter Zöller (eds.) - 2007 - Cambridge University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-04-20

Downloads
48 (#293,064)

6 months
5 (#246,492)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Robert Louden
University of Southern Maine

References found in this work

Die Bestimmung des Menschen bei Kant (Georg Geismann).Reinhard Brandt - 2007 - Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 61 (1):4.
Can Kant have an account of moral education?Kate A. Moran - 2009 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 43 (4):471-484.
Can Kant Have an Account of Moral Education?Kate A. Moran - 2009 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 43 (4):471-484.
Essays on Kant and Hume.Lewis White Beck - 1979 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 169 (2):244-245.

View all 7 references / Add more references