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, Axiology the branch of philosophy that seek to answer the question "What is of value?"
Two main branches of axiology ethics and aesthetics
Ontology the study of the nature of existence, or what it means for anything to be
J. Donald Butler "isology" synonym for ontology
Metaphysics and education central concept of education because it is important that the educational
program of the school be based upon fact and reality rather than fancy,
illusion, or imagination
Epistemology and education educators must understand their epistemological presuppisitions before they
will be able to operate effectively
Axiology and education (E.F Schumacher) without a re-emphasis of axiological concern education will prove to be an
agent of destruction rather than a constructive resource
Research process question-method-results-interpretation-conclusion
study group a group of people who meet to study a particular subject and then report their
findings
Nihlism denial of any philosophy or worldview, natural child of naturalism, human being
are a piece of machinery, marks the death of art
Existentialism transcends nihilism, atheistic and theistic,human beings are complex machines,
commitment to oneself
Deism warm and cold, God created the universe but left it to run on its own, God
created the cosmos in a closed system, no miracles possible, there may or may
not be life after death, there was no fall, world is in normal state
Theistic existentialism human beings are personal, whether or not God exists is a question based on
faith, knowledge is subjectivity and whole truth is paradoxical
Naturalism God does not exist, matter exists eternally, closed system, human beings are
complex machines, death is the extinction of personality and individuality,
ethics is related only to human beings
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