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IDEALISM
We can never directly know or Because the material world is
experience an external object characterized by change and
itself. Only minds and the instability, truth can never be found in
objects of the mind exist. this material world because truth
should be absolute and changeless.
The Idealist Philosophers
Socrates
As a person, we have the Knowledge is inborn. Hence, virtue
responsibility to make is also a natural endowment and
our soul as good as not an artificial convention or a
possible. habit of action acquired through
education.
There is the pre-
pre-existence of the person.
Because we are imprisoned in our body, it is important that we
reminisce our knowledge of the real world.
St. Augustine
of Hippo
One should release himself from the CIVITAS MUNDI and enter into the
CIVITAS DEI.
People do not create knowledge because God has already created it. People
can discover knowledge if they attempt to find God.
He attempted to search for the idea that is true and indubitable, which will
also serve as the foundation of all knowledge.
He thought that if he could discover ideas that are clear and distinct,
then he would have a solid foundation upon which to build other ideas.
Rene Descartes
Through this, he was able to arrive at the idea “Cogito, ergo sum.”
He was famous for his idea “ESSE EST PERCIPI, i.e., “to be is to
be perceived.”
George Berkeley
Friedrich Hegel
The final stage of synthesis of idea and nature is spirit, and this is where the
Final Absolute is encountered.
Josiah Royce
Aim of Education
Education should focus on the SEARCH FOR TRUTH, SELF-
SELF -
REALIZATION and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.
Truth can never be found in this world of matter. True education is one that
is concerned with ideas rather than matter.
Because of the learners’
immaturity, it is the role of One of the primary functions
the teacher to guide them of education is to open the soul
along the correct path to God.
towards the Infinite.
Aim of Education
It is the duty of the teacher to encourage students to ask questions and to
provide a suitable environment for learning.
For the religious idealists, the student is important as creation of God and
carries within some godliness that the school should seek to develop.
STRENGTHS OF IDEALISM
Teacher as a revered person central to the educational process.
WEAKNESSES OF IDEALISM
Curriculum deals too much of the past and very little about the
present.
Assignment:
Trace the influence of the eastern philosophy in the philosophy of Idealism.
Should idealism be made the tool and the model in reconstructing the
society? Why or why not?