Sensualism as a basis for first experiments in the instruction of the handicapped - Its significance for the question of the educability of the blind

Journal/Book: Z Padagog. 2000; 46: Am Hauptbahnhof 10 Postfach 1120, W-6940 Weinheim, Germany. Verlag Julius Beltz. 193-214.

Abstract: Could philosophical thinking at the time of enlightenment in France have been so beneficial to the staging of medical pedagogy that it could be considered an important anthropological prerequisite for integrative pedagogics? Or does this primarily point to a social incorporation of sensorily handicapped people while simultaneously excluding the nonrational and thus unusable part of mankind? Taking Diderot as an example, the author demonstrates the results to be drawn from an analysis of the sensualistically determined philosophy of the time of enlightenment in France. Furthermore, she argues that reactions to a sensualistially-empirically oriented foundation of special education have always been rather critical in character.

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