SAINT ANTHONY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Mabalacat City, Pampanga

PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION

Activity No. 3

Name: KEVIN P. BANSIL

1. Elaborate the given table

Philosopher What are their contribution in the philosophy How their philosophy affects What is the importance of their philosophy
and education education/learning/educational management
and leadership
Socrates The greatest contribution of Socrates to Western Socrates believed that knowledge was the Socrates believed that philosophy should
philosophy was his technique for arguing a point, ultimate virtue, best used to help people achieve practical results for the greater well-
known as the Socratic technique, which he applied improve their lives. “The only good is being of society. He attempted to establish an
to many things such as truth and justice. knowledge and the only evil is ignorance,” he ethical system based on human reason rather
said. Socrates' greatest contribution to fellow than theological doctrine. Socrates pointed out
learners is his theory of questioning, now that human choice was motivated by the desire
called the Socratic Method. for happiness.
Plato His famous contribution in the theory of Forms He regards education as a means to achieve Plato’s Theory of Forms asserts that the
known by pure reason, in which Plato presents a justice, both individual justice and social physical world is not really the “real” world;
solution to the problem of universals known as justice. According to him, individual justice instead ultimate reality exists beyond our
Platonism (also ambiguously called the Platonic can be obtained when each individual develops physical world. The spiritual realm, however,
realism or Platonic Idealism) his or her ability to the fullest. In the sense, exists beyond the physical realm.
justice means excellence. For them, excellence
is a virtue.
Aristotle He made a pioneering contribution to all fields of Philosophy is a subject that great interest to
He believed that the purpose of school was to
philosophy and science, he invented the field of Aristotle. And he theorized that philosophy
develop and exercise student’s potential for
formal logic, and he identified the various scientific was the foundation of the ability to understand
reasoning, form ethical character, and provide
disciplines and explored their relationships to each the basic axioms that comprise knowledge. In
a skill and knowledge base. He thought the
other. order to study and question completely he
purpose of schooling was to develop
viewed logic as the basic means of reasoning.
dispositions and habits that exercise reason and
forming a human’s ethos.
Petrarch Petrarch was a devoted classical scholar who is He also founded philology, the study of all Petrarch is traditionally called the “Father of
considered the "Father of Humanism," linguistic and literary phenomena. He Humanism,” and considered by many to more
a philosophy that helped spark the disdained wealth and believed that one should generally be the “Father of the Renaissance.”
Renaissance. Petrarch's writing includes well- not actively seek it. Petrarch's writings paved This honorific is so given both for his
 known odes to Laura, his idealized love. His
writing was also used to shape the modern Italian
language.
the way for education in that he believed the
church's stance against science and classical
literature was barbaric and detrimental to
progress.
influential philosophical attitudes, found in his
numerous personal letters, and his discovery
and compilation of classical texts. He
rediscovered many manuscripts in monasteries
and had Greek works translated to Latin so that
they could be more readily read and studied.

Boccaccio He was an Italian poet and scholar, best Boccaccio saw the beauty and glory of an Boccaccio was acutely aware of his position as
remembered as the author of the earthy tales in idealism that later became associated with est mediator between different cultures—classical
the Decameron. With Petrarch he laid the and zeal in reviving the learning of the and medieval; Italian, French, and Latin; and
foundations for the humanism of ancients. Even his ... reader is the effect of life Christian and pagan—and thus he stands as an
the Renaissance and raised vernacular literature to itself, which includes for its own good, ... important figure in the development of a
the level and status of the classics of antiquity. a philosophy of the world, European humanist literary culture that defines
the Renaissance and beyond.

Submission is on or before January 23, 2021 (Saturday) –Google classroom