Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century
Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century
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争论和教学的形式:来自 17 世纪和 18 世纪初威斯特伐利亚文法学校哲学课的例子
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10.1163/9789004436206_020
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2020
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Hans-Ulrich Musolff
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Stephanie Hellekamps;Hans-Ulrich Musolff
Disputation was practised in the early-modern period not only at universities, but also in the senior classes of grammar schools. Disputation served to identify what had been taught and what the pupil had learned. In our study of disputations which were held at Westphalian grammar schools we focus on the period between the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the first third of the 18th century. The disputation could take different forms. We will distinguish three here:(1) Theses nudae (short, concise theses),(2) partly explained theses which were interspersed with many bibliographical references to ancient and modern philosophical and theological authorities, and (3) essays which unfold their arguments in any detail. The following examines whether these forms are related to different didactic ideas and how a teacher understood himself philosophically. Did a philosophical preference for Aristotle or for Descartes on the part of the teacher influence his form of disputation and his didactic ideas? We will investigate this question by looking at the different didactic models of enactment used by teachers, which we will extrapolate in particular from the form of disputation that they favoured. These different didactic models can be described as follows: the call to explain, direct instruction, philosophical meditation, close textual reading. Regardless of their respective philosophical preferences, and regardless of their denominational differences, what united the teachers of the various Westphalian grammar schools was their desire to help their pupils assume a rational and theoretically informed attitude towards the world.Disputation was practised in the early-modern period not only at universities, but also in the senior classes of grammar schools. Disputation served to identify what had been taught and what the pupil had learned. On the one hand, it helped the praeses to raise his academic and didactic profile before the city audience attending the disputation, thereby giving the school a certain prestige.