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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957806003321

Autore

Topping Ryan

Titolo

St. Augustine / / Ryan N.S. Topping

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum International Pub. Group, , 2010

ISBN

9786613206510

9781472504876

1472504879

9781472541529

1472541529

9781283206518

128320651X

9781441157805

1441157808

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Continuum library of educational thought ; ; v. 17

Disciplina

270.2092

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editor's Preface ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations -- Part 1: 1. Intellectual Biography ; Approaching Augustine -- Part 2: 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 3: Philosophical Reception and Relevance. 6. Augustine and Some Philosophers of Education ; St. Augustine and The Defense of Liberal Education -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"St Augustine is indisputably a major thinker in education. Ryan Topping's volume offers the most coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought. This work is divided into: 1 Intellectual Biography 2 Critical Explosion 3 Philosophical Reception and Relevance."--Bloomsbury Publishing.