Fernando de Borbón - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 10:54:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Fernando de Borbón - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Study course for the instruction of the Prince of Parma https://historylab.es/cours-detudes-pour-linstruction-du-prince-de-parme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cours-detudes-pour-linstruction-du-prince-de-parme Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cours-detudes-pour-linstruction-du-prince-de-parme/ Fragment of text in which Condillac calls on Ferdinand of Bourbon to learn the sciences by experience through observation

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]]> The Abbé Condillac was a leading figure of the Enlightenment. Trained for a religious life, he did not take the habit and completed his education in science and pedagogy. His active academic life led him to be presented as preceptor to the nephew of Louis XV in Parma. There he wrote his 13-volume publication entitled “Cours d’études pour l’instruction du Prince de Parme” in which he was to train the young monarch. His enormous interest in pedagogy enabled him to present a method that he himself pointed out as novel and relevant for training the prince. In this case, the fragment highlights his empiricist side, where he calls on the prince to know things through experience in order to obtain true knowledge of things as opposed to already established systems. The structure of his publication also draws from another great preceptor, the abbé Fénelon, who had trained the grandsons of Louis XIV and the dauphin of France.

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