PHILOSOPHY AS A META-DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOL: THE FOUNDATIONS OF INTEGRATION OF HUMANITIES AND NATURAL SCIENCES
Yu. A. Rotenfeld
Lugansk National Agrarian University, Lugansk
Keywords: philosophy for children, cognition, intellect, reason, mind, trilogy of intellect, logic paradigm, meta-discipline, the identical, the different, the corresponding, the opposite
Abstract
A new method of the children intellectual development is suggested: a trilogy of intellect, the basic thinking operation of which is the logical operation of comparison. The method is created on the basis of Aristotle’s understanding of philosophy as “the science about the first reasons and origins” of cognition that must be a starting point of the surrounding world’s cognition at school. In addition to the generally accepted teaching the rational and mental thinking to schoolchildren, a new method is an effective mean of advanced development of the rational thinking of children with the help of general scientific comparative notions - the kinds of opposition, promoting a holistic world perception of schoolchildren.
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