单词 | essentialism |
释义 | essentialismn. 1. Education. A theory advocating the teaching, on traditional lines and to everyone, of certain ideas and methods supposed to be essential to the prevalent culture (opposed to progressivism n.). ΘΚΠ society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of university extension1839 Philanthropinism1842 Arnoldismc1845 co-education1852 Pestalozzianism1859 kindergartenism1872 secularism1872 community education1873 Froebelism1879 co-ed1886 extramuralism1892 vocationalism1901 heurism1909 sandwich1913 Montessori1917 Montessorianism1917 Juku system1931 polytechnization1932 day release1936 essentialism1939 comprehensivization1958 multitracking1989 1939 J. S. Brubacher Mod. Philos. Educ. xiv. 336 Over against the philosophy of progressive education..stands that of essentialism or traditionalism. 1950 T. Brameld Patterns Educ. Philos. vii. 211 What then is the central outlook of essentialism?.. It views the established beliefs and institutions of our modern heritage as not only real but true, and not only true but good. 2. a. Philosophy. The belief in real essences of things, esp. the view that the task of science and philosophy is to discover these and express them in definitions. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] > essentialism or essentialist essentialism1945 essentialist1945 1945 K. R. Popper Open Society I. iii. 26 Methodological essentialism, i.e. the theory that it is the aim of science to reveal essences and to describe them by means of definitions. 1948 Mind 57 302 Essentialism is not only deep-rooted in men's thought habits—or linguistic habits; as it penetrates different departments of human thought it works on these. 1957 K. R. Popper Poverty of Historicism i. 27 This ‘realist’ theory has also been called ‘idealist’. I therefore propose to rename this antinominalist theory ‘essentialism’. b. [translating French essentialisme.] The doctrine that essence is prior to existence (opposed to existentialism n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > existentialism > [noun] > other doctrines related to mauvaise foi1948 essentialism1949 1949 E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy i. 11 However much vestigial Platonic essentialism there may have been in the thought of the great Greek father [sc. St. John of Damascus], St. Thomas interprets him in the most existential manner possible. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1939 |
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