Maria Montessori''s Philosophy - Following the Child

About the author

Patrick R. Frierson is Paul Pigott and William M. Allen Professor of Ethics, Whitman College. He is the author of Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy (Cambridge, 2003), Kant's Questions: What is the Human Being? (Routledge, 2013), Kant's Empirical Psychology (Cambridge, 2014), Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology: A Montessori Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2020), The Moral Philosophy of Maria Montessori: Agency and the Structure of Ethical Life (Bloomsbury, 2022), and the co-editor of Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime and other Writings (with Paul Guyer, Cambridge, 2011).

Summary

Maria Montessori's Philosophy explores Montessori's approach to education in the context of a broader set of philosophical views. Patrick Frierson shows how her commitment to children led her to profound insights about a wide range of philosophical questions, from foundational metaphysics to applied ethics and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick R. Frierson, Patrick R. (Whitman College) Frierson, Frierson Patrick R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9780192883285
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288328-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy & theory of education, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy and theory of education, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy