“If You Want to Write for Children”: Conflicting Advice from Kant and Friedlaender
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Robert B. Louden
Abstract
This essay consists of two interrelated parts. In Part I (“Kant on Education”), I offer a survey of and brief commentary on Kant’s writings on education, in which I argue that they are both much more extensive and more central to his philosophy than many readers realize. On Kant’s view, education is fundamentally about the project to realize our humanity: we literally create ourselves through education. In Part II (“Kant and Salomo Friedlaender on Children’s Education: Notes”), I examine six key differences between Kant’s and Friedlaender’s respective views on children’s education and how one should write about it.
Abstract
This essay consists of two interrelated parts. In Part I (“Kant on Education”), I offer a survey of and brief commentary on Kant’s writings on education, in which I argue that they are both much more extensive and more central to his philosophy than many readers realize. On Kant’s view, education is fundamentally about the project to realize our humanity: we literally create ourselves through education. In Part II (“Kant and Salomo Friedlaender on Children’s Education: Notes”), I examine six key differences between Kant’s and Friedlaender’s respective views on children’s education and how one should write about it.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments VII
- Table of Contents IX
- Table of Abbreviations XI
- Translator’s Introduction 1
- Kant for Children: Questions and Answers for the Teaching of Morality 11
- Shlomo Friedlaender: Portrait of a Jewish Kantian 63
- Kant, Philosophy, and the Public 67
- Do Children Have Common Sense? 85
- “If You Want to Write for Children”: Conflicting Advice from Kant and Friedlaender 105
- Above All Things Human: Bestimmung in Salomo Friedlaender’s Kant for Children 121
- Equality and Reciprocity, or: The Primacy of the Practical 141
- Notes on Contributors 145
- Index 147
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments VII
- Table of Contents IX
- Table of Abbreviations XI
- Translator’s Introduction 1
- Kant for Children: Questions and Answers for the Teaching of Morality 11
- Shlomo Friedlaender: Portrait of a Jewish Kantian 63
- Kant, Philosophy, and the Public 67
- Do Children Have Common Sense? 85
- “If You Want to Write for Children”: Conflicting Advice from Kant and Friedlaender 105
- Above All Things Human: Bestimmung in Salomo Friedlaender’s Kant for Children 121
- Equality and Reciprocity, or: The Primacy of the Practical 141
- Notes on Contributors 145
- Index 147
