FD 503: PHILO-SOCIO-PSYCHO FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION
AREAS OF PHILOSOPY
EPISTEMOLOGY
- deals with the nature of knowledge knowing closely related to
methods of teaching and learning.
METAPHYSICS
- deals with the nature of reality and existence.
ETHICS
- examines moral values and rules of right conduct.
AESTHETICS
- deals with the values of beauty and the art.
LOGIC
- is the study of correct thinking.
HISTORICAL SURVEY
Gregorian Calendar
BC- Before Christ, A.D. Anno Domini
I. Classical Art
- was influenced by Egypt and Meopotamia
Korus- male nude sculpture
Kore- female nude sculpture
Painting on vases
500 B- ancient Greece and Roman Empire were the superpowers
II. Golden Age of Greece- Classical Period, Age of Pericles
Greece: divided into city states
1. Athens (art, musicians, culture, architect and philosophers.
PHILOSOPHERS
Socrates- first philosopher use analytic method, idealistic
Plato-
Aristotle-
2.Sparta- military, fighters
3. Olimpia- sports like shotput, javelin throw
PREVAILING IDEAS
HUMANISM
- way of thinking that they believe that man is the highest of all
creature, motto: “ Man the measure of all things”. (the artistic nude
sculpture or painting)
IDEALISM
- Socrates was an Idealist. To be perfect body should be developed
through music.
RATIONALISM
- is the use of reason.
III. Helenistic Period- 400 BC
Alexander the Great- undefeated warrior at all times.
Hellenistic- decline period of Persian Empire.
IV. Roman Art 100 BC
Romans were “this wordly”
First to do governance of huge people, huge apartments,
supermarkets, baths, aqueducts, road network
Colliseum
Early Christian Period
Persecution of Christians
King Nero ordered the burning of Rome
Catacombs
V. Byzantine Art
300- Queen Helena- converted to Christianity
Byzantuim- center of art and culture
Renamed Constantiople
Christianity- influenced the art and culture of the Roman Empire
Architecture- churches and basilicas
Music- Christian music, dances, drama
Painting- early Christian symbols:
cross, peacock, anchor, dove, fish
Mysticism
Authoritarianism
VI. Romanesque Art- 500 AD
476 AD- fall of Roman Empire
Attacks from the North, Plague
Dark Ages
800 AD- Monasticsm
Hierarchism
First Holy Roman Emperor- Charlemagne
Paintings: witches, devil, hell
1100- Roman empire started to develop
VII. Gothic Period
-to bridge the gap between what is worldly and heavenly
Age of Scholasticism
Scholastic Philosopher
Thomas Aquinas- priest- theologian who tried to explain faith
through reason.
- He wrote two books: Summa Theologica
Influx of the Bourgeoisie
VII. Renaissance Period- 1500 onwards
Factors that brought about the period:
- exploration and navigation
- Francis of Assisi
- Universalism and Naturalism
- The Great Schism
- Banking and Finance
Michaelangelo- Sistine chapel, Pieta
Leonardo da Vinci- Mona Liza
Rafael of Zansro- Madonna of the Gold Flinch
VIII. Mannerism