How does Grant view the role of philosophy in relation to history?
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He believes philosophy should transcend history and not be dependent on dynamic contexts.
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How does Grant view the role of philosophy in relation to history?
He believes philosophy should transcend history and not be dependent on dynamic contexts.
How does Grant connect the concept of 'partake' with education?
He suggests that education involves sharing and communicating experiences to fulfill responsibilities of one's time.
What does studying figures like Jesus and Socrates enable according to Grant?
Academic erudition, ethical engagement, and subjective reconstruction.
What historical context does the phrase 'peace, order, and good government' have in Canada?
It reflects the survival aspirations of European ancestors during conflicts, including with Indigenous peoples.
How does Grant describe the actions of European ancestors?
As having good intentions that often went awry, particularly in their dealings with Indigenous peoples.
What does George Grant suggest about survival in the face of technological change?
Survival involves carrying out private duties and thoughts amidst the tyranny of technological consumption of Indigenous cultures.
What does Grant invite us to do with the thoughts of Plato and Aristotle?
To think with them and discern their vision of human nature and destiny.
What does Grant suggest is necessary for discovering the richness of life in a technological world?
Changing our awareness of who we are and our relation to nature and other beings.
What ethical obligations does Grant emphasize in relation to the present?
Honoring one's ethical obligations within a structured situation.
What did Grant teach at university to protest against modernity?
Ancient religions and philosophy.
What does George Grant suggest is necessary for knowledge of a transcendent good?
Experience of the everyday realities and particularities of the material world.
What recommendation does Grant make to prospective teachers?
Teach what is really grasping you, rather than repeating what you already know.
What is the central focus of academic study and teaching according to Grant?
Learning about one's obligations and how to honor them.
What state does Aoki refer to when discussing the tension between goodness and necessity?
Tensionality.
What is the relationship between transcendence and worldliness according to Grant?
They are not opposed but are reciprocally related.
What connection does Grant draw between Socrates and Christ?
He suggests that knowledge depends on what we love, linking Socratic philosophy with Christian charity.
What does George Grant mean by 'moderation' in the context of English and French relations?
Moderation refers to 'clear firmness,' the opposite of intemperance and confrontation.
What does Grant caution about societies that trust in affluence and technology?
They may use any means necessary to force others to conform to their will.
What is the primary concern of reconceptualizing teacher education according to the text?
The reconstruction of private desire into public service.
What was George Grant's perspective on modernity?
He believed that understanding modernity's greatest power could help one escape its influence.
What does changing awareness require according to the text?
An ongoing dialogical encounter with alterity.
What challenge does Grant present regarding classical reason and modern technological thinking?
To bring together the truth of both in the same thought.
How does Grant suggest overcoming crises created by technology?
By reactivating the past rather than planning the future.
What does contemplation represent in Grant's educational philosophy?
A mode of engagement that emphasizes understanding over calculation.
How does Grant differentiate between reactivating the past and mere tourism?
Reactivating the past involves dwelling within it as if our lives depend on it, rather than exoticizing it.
What does Grant believe is at risk due to cultural, economic, and political integration?
Everything Canadian, including language and culture.
What was the second political question Grant identified?
The negotiation of workable relations between French- and English-speaking Canadians.
What does justice demand according to the text?
The apprehension of alterity and its recognition as difference and resonance.
What does Grant suggest is necessary for transcendence?
Living through the responsibilities of time while being attuned to the eternal.
How does Grant view the concept of 'place' in education?
As not only geographical but also cultural, spiritual, and historical.
What does George Grant position as a prerequisite to the public good?
Piety, which denotes a devotion to ongoing study and understanding.
What term was used to describe the interrelation between theory and practice?
Praxis.
What should teacher education in Canada emphasize according to the text?
Indigenous knowledge, including its spirituality, orality, sustainability, and particularity.
How does Neil Robertson interpret Grant's view on Canadian unity?
He suggests that an attachment to the universality of the pre-modern tradition can unite Canadians.
How did Grant view the role of Aboriginal peoples in the context of Canadian identity?
He believed they should be included in the conversation about maintaining cultural particularity.
What question did Grant repeatedly ask regarding the curriculum?
What knowledge is of most worth?
What is the proposed movement in cosmopolitan teacher education according to Grant?
From particularity to universality.
Who are the two figures that represent 'difference' for Grant?
Jesus and Socrates.
What is required for study when not shared with others?
Qui etude, encouraging contemplation.
What does George Grant critique about English-speaking nationalism in Canada?
It desires to be similar to American capitalism, merely adorned with a Canadian flag.
What critique does Grant offer regarding calculation in education?
He argues that calculation substitutes for reason's role in judgment and can reproduce problems rather than resolve them.
What historical context should teacher education consider?
Its pre-modern pre-colonial past.
What aspect of American culture does Grant see as a threat to Canadian particularities?
America's modernity and its melting pot concept, which dissolves differences.
What does Grant mean by 'non-coincidence with what is' in education?
It refers to the need to confront modernity directly rather than ignoring it.
What does George Grant invite teachers to do regarding the past?
Preserve the past through academic erudition and reconstruct it through ethical engagement.
How does Grant view the conception of education that aims to convert children into human capital?
As a soul-crushing conception, potentially stemming from good intentions gone awry.
What does 'transcendence' imply in Grant's view?
A spatial position that is not necessarily detached from historical moments.
How did Grant describe the United States in relation to Canada?
As a 'monolithic tyranny' characterized by 'sophisticated vulgarity.'
What does Grant suggest about relationships in a corporate-driven society?
They should focus on others as intrinsically important persons, rather than as means to our ends.
What does the term 'partake' imply in Grant's philosophy?
It implies sharing experiences and taking on qualities of what one engages with.
What term does Ted Aoki use to describe teaching without a strict plan?
Improvisation.
What does Grant acknowledge about reconciling pre-modern and modern philosophical assumptions?
It is not possible to fully reconcile them.
How can one experience the richness of life according to Robert C. Sibley?
By loving one's own—family, friends, place, and time.
What does Grant hope to overcome in the relationship between action and contemplation?
The tragic split between them.
What does Grant mean by 'agape' in relation to love and charity?
Agape is best translated as charity and is central to understanding love in the context of education.
What is George Grant's view on Canadian independence from the United States?
He believed Canada should maintain some independence from an imperialist United States.
What does Grant propose as a way to peer through the technological sensorium?
The reactivation of the ancient past.
According to the text, what is a prerequisite of academic erudition?
Openness to what is revealed and a willingness to allow reality to speak through us.
What does Grant believe should be imprinted across the curriculum of teacher education in Canada?
The distinctiveness of Canadian civic-pedagogical particularity.
How does Grant perceive technological society?
He does not advocate for a return to pre-modernity but acknowledges the need for thoughtful engagement with technology.
What does Samuel Rocha suggest about changing everything?
We must be willing to change nothing and recover what we have lost.
What is the significance of 'charity' in Grant's thought?
Charity is seen as giving oneself away and is integral to the structure of subjectivity.
What challenge does Margaret Atwood highlight for Canadians?
Survival in the face of impending climate catastrophe.
What societal condition does Grant describe as 'our dead-level, conformist society'?
A society that lacks philosophical consideration and is unaware of its own limitations.
How did Grant approach his studies?
He worked through four academic disciplines while remaining alert to art, popular culture, and politics.
What does George Grant suggest is necessary for understanding and co-creation in education?
A certain immersion in the subject, both academic and human.
How does Grant view the relationship between ethics and economics/politics?
He questions whether ethics can replace economics and politics as the animating forces in life.
What is necessary for educators to fulfill their professional responsibilities?
Academic erudition.
According to Grant, where might one find passage to an alternative future?
In the past.
What principle did Grant suggest Canada must stand on?
Some principle which preserves communal individuality in the face of American homogenization.
What does Grant mean by 'partaking of the past'?
Reactivating the past within oneself to enrich the present.
What phrase summarizes the aspirations of European ancestors in Canada?
Peace, order, and good government.
What responsibilities do educators have according to George Grant?
Remembrance, reparation, and reconciliation.
What is the role of educators in relation to the past, according to Grant?
They are ethically implicated professional protectors committed to remembering and reconstructing the past.
What historical event does Grant cite as a failure in recognizing the needs of French-speaking peoples?
The enforcement of conscription in 1917 against the will of Quebec.
What does Grant caution against when one has not considered different concepts?
One tends to coincide with what is, without being conscious of living within those limits.
What does Anne M. Phelan suggest about being present to one another?
It involves the revelation of a 'who' that is implicit in everything one says or does.
What does Grant contest against the idea of converting children into human capital?
The protection of the precious particularities of Canada.
What does Grant argue about the direction of society in Canada?
The focus should not be on economic expansion but on rethinking what things are fitted for.
What does Grant mean by 'the past has been likened to a foreign country'?
It suggests that understanding the past can provide insights into our current situation and identity.
What did Grant hope for the future of French Canada?
That it could maintain a culture different from the rest of North America.
What does George Grant suggest about the opposite of knowledge?
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance but madness.
What does the text imply about modernity and the secularization of Christianity?
It was inevitable and justified, according to Grant's analysis.
