Education, freedom and reason: The Foucauldian challenge to enlightenment ideals
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1991
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This thesis explores the formative influence which the enlightenment movement's proposal for the pursuit of freedom through the exercise of reason has had upon the development of liberal and Maxist thought. !t indicates how liberal and Marxist philosophies of education, as
derivative studies, share the dilemmas and quandaries which their respective parent traditions confront in the pursuit of this enlightenment
ideal. It argues that Michel Foucault's reflections on the problematic relationship between freedom and reason crystallize contemporary
difficulties with this cardinal enlightenment notion, challenging us implicitly as educators to continue with the arduous task of promoting
autonomy despite this definitive but antinomous legacy.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhil
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Problematic relationship between reason, Freedom emerges, European enlightenment