Roughing Out the Ground Rules: reason and experience in practical deliberation
Roughing Out the Ground Rules: reason and experience in practical deliberation
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制定基本规则:实际审议中的理由和经验
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-9752.1995.tb00346.x
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1995
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David Carr
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David Carr
Joseph Dunne’s achievement in this truly remarkable work is of the highest significance for educational philosophy in a number of different respects. First, in a quite fresh and interesting way, the book explores the development of the idea of practical knowledge through the work of several past and present day philosophers-some of whom are currently exercising an enormous influence over contemporary philosophers of education. Secondly, in tracing the notion of practical knowledge to its source in Aristotle’s original distinction of practical from theoretical knowledge, and between different forms of practical knowledge, he has given us a comprehensive account of Aristotle’s fertile work in this area which aspires to the very highest standards of philosophical scholarship. From this perspective, although the name and authority of Aristotle have been frequently invoked in recent educational philosophy, it has to be admitted that the name has often been taken in vain and the authority invoked on the basis of less than careful attention to primary sources. For my own part, then, I trust that this exemplary treatment of Aristotle’s ideas may properly shame some of us into returning to read the works of the master philosopher with the sort of care which Dunne has clearly devoted to him on this occasion. Thirdly, however, as well as being a novel adventure into the history of ideas-of clear and considerable merit in itself-Dunne has also sought to develop a specific philosophical perspective on the essential character of both phronesis and technk which differs markedly and interestingly from others currently canvassed in philosophy and philosophy of education. Moreover, Dunne has presented this perspective with a cogency, clarity and erudition which must be reckoned with by all who would in future appeal to the authority of Aristotle. But, last and by no means least, this is also the work of a professional philosopher of education who has taken his cue specifically from certain crucial issues and problems about the nature of educational practice