Course Objectives: Introducing pedagogical ideas from the history of western philosophy and the conceptual-critical analysis of them.

Course Topics: Philosophy of education; Learning-teaching the moral virtue – reading in Plato's Meno; Democracy and education: selected chapters from the writings of J-J.Rousseau, J.Dewey; A.S.Neill, H.Marcuse, Th.W.Adorno and others; Aesthetic education: selected chapters from the writings of I.Kant and F.Schiller; Nietzsche's critique of the bourgeois education – reading in On the Future of Our Educational Institutions and Schopenhauer as an Educator.  

Method of Teaching: Lectures, guided reading and classroom-discussion.

Literature: Selected chapters from the above philosophers' writings. The bibliography will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.

Student Assignment: A classroom-exam.