Abstract
By first considering the nature of religious knowledge, I will discuss whether religious education should be part of every person’s education. In examining the aims of all education and human development in classical and Christian philosophy, we may explore how education in a Catholic context impels us to cultivate a person’s wholistic nature. I will aim to demonstrate how this occurs through fully embracing his spiritual dimension: encouraging, instilling, and modelling a lifelong desire and concurrently fostering a spiritual-intellectual capacity for right relationship with the divine (and, therein, with others and the world around them.) In so doing, educators help each pupil they are entrusted with understand their worth and dignity in the grandest (eternal) scheme. It is through this educational paradigm, it appears, that we can pursue and embody our innate human desire – life to the fullest.
Recommended Citation
Hyland, Lydia. "RELIGIOUS EDUCATION? TELL ME WHY! AN ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION." Aristos 6, no. 1, art. 9 (2022): 83-95. https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/aristos/vol6/iss1/9
