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SUMMARY:Roxane Noël: John of Salisbury on Education and Human Flourishing
  - Roxane Noël\, Philosophy PhD student\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Julian M. Siebert
DESCRIPTION:John of Salisbury is an important figure when it comes to twel
 fth-century philosophy. Among other things\, he is known for his education
 al philosophy. These views are mostly expounded in his Metalogicon\, writt
 en as a defense of the arts of the trivium\, namely grammar\, dialectic (o
 r logic) and rhetoric. His motivation for writing this treatise is to defe
 nd the teaching of these classical arts against those who believe that edu
 cation should have the sole purpose of training people for certain profess
 ional occupations\; these adversaries he subsumes under the name “Cornif
 icans”. The purpose of this talk is to show how John of Salisbury’s hu
 manistic approach to education is still relevant today\, in a context wher
 e a classical conception of education as promoting human flourishing is be
 ing challenged by a more austere view of education\, where the imperative 
 of forming technicians suited to the needs of the market takes precedence.
  \n\n*About the Speaker*\nRoxane Noël is a Gates scholar and PhD student 
 in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She specializes in medieval 
 philosophy\, with a special interest for the problem of universals. After 
 working on Peter Abelard’s notion of nature for her M.A. thesis\, she no
 w focuses her PhD research on twelfth-century nominalism\, a project she i
 s undertaking with the supervision of John Marenbon.
LOCATION:Roger Needham Room\, Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, UK\, CB3 9BB
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