types of philosophy
The purpose of education is to help children find meaning and direction in their lives.
Existentialism
The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.
Ethics
He founded the Academy, the world's first university.
Plato
A belief that free will is an illusion and that humans are shaped by their surroundings or environment.
Behaviorism
A branch of philosophy that deals with reasoning.
Logic
Taught Alexnder the Great.
Aristotle
Tries to teach students cumulative knowledge of our civilization through traditional academics.
Essentialism
The idea that society is a sorting system where the fittest survive.
Social Darwinism
A teacher who didn't have a school. He walked around Athens and engaged with many people, talking to them and asking them questions about life.
Socrates
They are organized by learning through books and ideas, while they criticize essentialists for pushing their students into learning cultural literacy.
Perennialism
Drawing generalizations based on the observation of specific examples.
Inductive reasoning
He believes in behaviorism and popularized positive reinforcement.
B. F. Skinner
Gives us knowledge that cannot be handed from one person to another; it should be made or constructed by the learner through interpretations.
Constructivism
Working from a general rule to identify particular examples and applications to that rule.
Deductive reasoning
Believes that reality is composed of both materialism and idealism, body and mind. The philosophy associated with him is called Cartesian dualism.
Rene Descartes