The Foundations of Whitehead's Philosophy of Education

Basics of Whitehead's Educational Philosophy Inspiration for this article comes from the theme of this conference with the 50th anniversary of Alfred Whitehead's death. In "educational goals", Whitehead talks about the role of freedom and restrictions in the educational process. Significant clues to the basics of these concepts and their applications can be found in the general metaphysical framework outlined in his "process and reality". Since the positive and negative prophecy seems to be a model of freedom and restriction, the latter concept means training of subjective goals.

Philosophy training allows some kind of speculation (Alfred North Whitehead calls it "thinking philosophy"). The inference feature is free. However, in each field, freedom of speculation and identity is often limited by the basic principles of the field. On the other hand, there is no basic principle in philosophy. In fact, the method involves challenging the basic principles of all other fields.

Along with his teacher Socrates and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato laid the foundation for Western philosophy and science. Alfred North Whitehead once pointed out: "The most safe general feature of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes by Plato." Western science, philosophy, and basic mathematics In addition to being a person. One of the founder. Plato is an innovator in the form of dialecticism in writing dialogue and philosophy. Plato seems to be the founder of Western political philosophy and his republic and law and other dialogues offer some of the earliest ways to deal with existing political issues from a philosophical point of view To do.

Whitehead (1978) presented a surprising suggestion that Plato's philosophy resembled the philosophy of living organisms in the Gilford lecture from 1927 to 2828. This is amazing for many scholars. Because Plato's symbolic doctrine, formal theory seems to be as far apart as possible from biological philosophy. In the normal understanding of formalism, reality is divided into a complete, eternal, unchanged, formal or universal world and an independent, finite, incomplete, perceptible detail world. The former image is not unrealistic, or unrealistic, in an ambiguous way, not a form. Because organisms need to grow and change, and according to formalism these are just forms of images and reality, Plato's ontology does not seem to have a basic position of life.