Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: The Salutary Science

Damrosch, Leo

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“…Supertramp’s “The Logical Song” presents numerous analogies to Rousseau’s early life and his search for a career, when he pursued work as a composer while writing his first essays on political theory. The lines “watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, a liberal, fanatical, criminal/Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable” capture the criticism he received for his theoretical writings, as well as the temptation of King Louis XV’s offer of a lifetime pension, which would have required him to refrain from political writing (Damrosch 2005, 225). The song’s refrain, “Please tell me who I am,” reflects Rousseau’s search for authenticity and demonstrates his lifelong struggle to be true to himself.…”

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Using Music and Lyrics to Teach Political Theory

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2015

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Since the fall semester of 2008, I have used music to teach political theory to undergraduate students. I use song lyrics to make analogies to concepts used by political theorists, and I use the music to create associations that improve students' memory of those concepts. Unlike other teachers who incorporate music into their classes by linking lyrics to concepts, I choose songs that refl ect important ideas of specifi c theorists through multiple allusions to their ideas. The songs I choose serve four objectives: introducing concepts that may be diffi cult for students to appreciate, illustrating the application of those concepts, reinforcing students' memory through issue-spotting songs, and presenting biographical information about the theorist that they are reading. I illustrate how I achieve these objectives through songs drawn from artists including Billy Joel, Ace of Base, and Supertramp, and musicals including West Side Story and Camelot .

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“…This, however, lets Rousseau off the hook too easily. His views were much more conservative than those of his fellow philosophes , not to mention the feminists of his era (Damrosch 2005, 340). And Rousseau praises Plato's Republic in Emile , so he was well acquainted with the argument that women's intellect is no different from men's.…”

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Philosophy of education: Thinking and learning through history and practice By JohnRyder. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. Pp. x + 275

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Writers of introductory texts must grapple with the best way to draw students into the topic. Should one begin with some classics in the history of the field or introduce readers to contemporary issues that might be more immediately relatable and relevant? John Ryder's Philosophy of Education-designed both for undergraduate and for graduate education and philosophy students-splits the difference. The book initially focuses on historical arguments and then moves to a contemporary analysis of philosophy of education by considering the educational implications of conceptions of nature, knowledge, experience, and social and political philosophy. The overall result is an engaging and interesting book that features lucid discussion of some important questions in educational philosophy.The historical section of Philosophy of Education consists of four chapters, each devoted to a single thinker. In the Plato chapter, Ryder uses the Republic to show, primarily, that Plato explores how education can shape a just state and just individuals. Ryder emphasizes a few key educational questions that arise from study of the Republic, including whether education ought to prepare citizens for certain roles in society (42) and the state's control of education. Ryder's discussion of Jean-Jaques Rousseau's Emile similarly emphasizes how education might best shape the individual and citizen, but with the crucial difference that Rousseau believes we must focus on educating the individual and protect the child from society in the course of his early life.In his next chapters, Ryder argues that while Plato thought that education should prepare children for society and Rousseau believed children must be protected from society, John Dewey believed that this was a false dichotomy; he sought to reform schools into social institutions that would enable students to flourish as individuals and democratic citizens (79). Paulo Freire, in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, also viewed education as the essential mechanism for creating a just state. Unlike Dewey's vision of a genuinely democratic education that would equip students to engage fellow citizens productively, however, Freire proposed a liberatory, revolutionary pedagogy that would help students challenge their unjust, oppressive societies.In the second part of Philosophy of Education, Ryder's first chapter offers a relatively brisk overview of some educational problems related to the goals of education. (Is education a private or a social good? What is the role of censorship in education? Should schools aim to solve social injustices?) Ryder also discusses pedagogical methods, testing, tracking, and the role of education in the state.The ensuing chapter defends a conception of relational ontology. People are not radically independent like balls on a pool table that come into contact with one another (174). Rather, all people (all entities, in fact [177]) are relationally constituted. Ryder argues that there are

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: The Salutary Science

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Philosophy of education: Thinking and learning through history and practice By JohnRyder. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. Pp. x + 275

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