Rousseau and Education According to Nature: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rousseau and Education According to Nature, credited to Thomas Davidson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Rousseau and Education According to Nature by Thomas Davidson. Read in English by Jim Locke In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I have endeavored to set forth the nature of modern, romantic, and unsocial Education. This education originates with Rousseau. With much reluctance I have been obliged to dwell, at considerable length, on the facts of his life, in order to show that his glittering structure rests, not upon any broad and firm foundation of well-generalized and well-sifted experience, but upon the private tastes and preferences of an exceptionally capricious and self-centered nature. His Emile is simply his selfish and unsocial self, forcibly withheld, by an external Providence, in the shape of an impossible tutor, from those aberrations which led that self into the a "dark forest " of misery. If my estimate of Rousseau's value as an educator proves disappointing to those who believe in his doctrines, I can only say, in excuse, that I am more disappointed than they are. (From author's Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rousseau and Education According to Nature
• Author credits: Thomas Davidson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 6:44:36

Track guide

1. 00 - Introductory — 2:51
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 37:53
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 44:05
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 47:00
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 33:44
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 28:54
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 42:18
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 33:23
9. 08 - Chapter 8 — 35:22
10. 09 - Chapter 9 — 34:54
11. 10 - Chapter 10 — 12:04
12. 11 - Chapter 11 — 52:08

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