This paper uses the philosophical methods employed by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey to formulate pragmatism’s basic ideas about education. The ideas proposed by the pragmatists are also used to compare and define their relationship between each other in order to create a new philosophy (theory) of democratic education. Based on the assumptions of pragmatism to show democracy in education, the paper explains the application of pragmatism to educational reform in Vietnam today. For pragmatism is to be what unites education.
eric de rus, edith stein, education, theology, philosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, phenomenology, human soul, Philosophy. Psychology. Religion, Metaphysics, BD95-131
Abstract
This paper is a review of Éric de Rus’s book: Anthropologie phénoménologique et théorie de l’éducation dans l’oeuvre d’Édith Stein (Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 2019). According to the author, de Rus succeeds in portraying the philosophical and theological roots to Stein’s outlook on education by discussing, among other topics, her metaphysical and theological positions (particularly in relation to the structure of the human soul), her reflections on the education of women, and her rejection of Heideggerian metaphysics.