The Pressures from Philosophy and Psychology for Educational Reform

Abstract

This article continues a tradition begun a few years ago of including in the Journal previously unpublished writings or lectures by Hartman that have been discovered in the Archives at the University of Tennessee. According to notes on the original manuscript, this paper was read at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology meeting, Louisville, KY, April 13, 1968. Today, when the value of higher education is often being scrutinized and attacked by politicians, his argument seems both prescient and instructional for a contemporary audience. In this presentation, Hartman emphasizes the importance of teaching ethics, of pursuing social justice, and of ending the reliance upon national sovereignty in a way that presages his conclusion in A Revolution Against War.