Document Type : Research Paper
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In this essay authors try to clarify the evolution of the concept and situation of reason from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages with emphasis on Plato and Aquinas points of view , and to investigate the changes and differences of the concept of reason as the most fundamental element of human cognition and to consider the educational implications there of. In addition to the clarification of the importance of the situation of reason during each era, to revealing the range of its effects on education is another aim of this essay. Our and above the clarification of the place and status of reason, this investigation attempts to answers the question of whether or not there was a relationship between the status of reason and education in the eras involved. The answer is accessible by paying attention to the educational theories of plato and Aquinas, which are explicitly or implicitly based on their epistemological views on reason
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