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Single discipline educational activity
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Prerequisites:
t is preferable, but not necessary, to have a basic knowledge of history of Western philosophy.
Objectives
Contents The course aims to explore two of the fundamental phenomena of human existence according to the philosopher Eugen Fink. The first is that of education, investigated and problematized in a systematic sense as knowledge and as human and institutional practice. To this end, we will examine Fink's book, the result of the lessons that the author, who grew up at the school of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, gave at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1953, in which Fink tried to introduce pedagogy through a systematic investigation of its foundations. The second phenomenon that will be discussed during the lessons will be that of play, understood in a broad semantic sense, which includes not only recreational activity, but also playing and acting. This phenomenon will be understood as a decisive moment to be able to transcend the situationality of existence by the human being and also as a cosmic metaphor.
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Extended Syllabus ntroduction: Pedagogy is not a "science of the spirit".
1. Criticism of the humanistic approach of contemporary German pedagogy - the system of the human being as a connection of existence and the world - the educational task of the university
Chapter I: The Preliminary Existential Concept of Education
2. Problematic nature of the science of education, the multiplicity of anthropological approaches - aporia - pedagogy to be fixed and planned
3. The man-enigma - only man educates - the metaphysical tradition and the place of man between animal and God - animal perfection, perfection of God - the man essentially disoriented, shapeless, disconcerted - education and human need.
4. The hybrid essence of spirit and sensitivity - the divine beast - imperfection of man - self-representation and trade with himself of man and being conscious - the missing categories for the human formation of himself
5. Animal rationale (motherhood and fatherhood, instinct and reason, impulse and freedom) - God does not educate - the intentional structure of self-awareness and trade with him - preliminary concept of custom - the man who requires form - improper domination of technical categories in pedagogy - generation and death - education and mortality
6. Death and meaning of life - temporal structure of the mortal - death as a "passage" - own death and the death of others - earthly immortality of mortals - polis and mortality - ambiguity of the concept of the world
Chapter II: Questions about the nature of the ideal
7. The need to give oneself a form - assimilation to God, domestication of the animal in man - commensuration to the supreme body - departure from the metaphysical tradition, cosmological aspect of pedagogy - criticism of the common opinion of educating, ontological opacity of the current categories
8. Man as a citizen of the world - analytic of ideal formation - educational end and dominant ideal - action, end, final end, praxis, poiesis, eudaimonia - ideal as a canon of our practical existence and as "constellation".
9. Making and omitting - fundamental ideal and multiplicity belonging - Alexandrian era - interpretation of eudaimonia - man and ideal - norms or "stars" - the Kantian binomial of the sublime: "starry sky" and "moral law" - the Kantian concept of idea and ideal
10. Kantian difference between "morality" and "happiness" - proximity and distance of the ideal - constellations = signs of the world - the Kantian "world-concept" of philosophy - transcendental ideal - concept of the "transcendental" and the transcendental - omnitudo realitatis - theological misunderstanding of the transcendental ideal - the omnitudo = the world.
11. The finished things and the omnitudo realitatis, the problem of individuation - the all-one or the supreme body? - ambiguity of the transcendental ideal - "in concrete" and "in individual" - practical meaning of the transcendental ideal: ideal of the supreme goodSommo Bene - Christian personification
12. A priori claims of reason - to wait and hope - to hope beyond death - kingdom of the dead as a field of hope - the unexpressed Kantian metaphysics of death - all the backward worlds as interpretations of the background - coincidence of moral and transcendental ideal
13. "Meaning" and freedom - worldly depth of meaning - to educate as a common path of ideal formation - ideal: a project of will or norm - subject-object relationship as a path of the traditional question on the ideal - the cosmic correspondence as the true path of this question - world - openness of human reason - in the transcendental ideal reason thinks its intramondanity
14. Ideals as only jealous, concealing the world - to design and find - neither something of freedom, nor something of nature as a model for the ideal - worldliness of the human being not an accessory character - possible closure of the world - the ideal a world problem, no metaphysical question - the thinking educator
15. The whole of being, the path (sunrise and sunset) - the game of the world and the shared knowledge of man - education as the foundation of humanity in the essence of the world - reference-world of each correspondence of man to gods and heroes - the world not an existential - look at the world of Plato and Nietzsche
Chapter III: the educational reference (the family)
16. Human need: exposed in what is not hidden and at the same time still preserved in what is enclosed - the lost path of man - educate as to how to advise one another - education and customs - problematic patterns in reading the position of the educator
17. The "human" in the educational relationship - the solemn educator and the sentimental educator - criticizes the educator-pupil scheme - the man as a "person"? - education is rooted in love - the family the original pedagogical situation - the triangle - the maternal and the paternal - the Hegelian speculative concept of female and male
18. The family as immortality of mortals - eros and blood - eros and paideia - gender a determination of the essence of the human being as freedom, reason, language - extraneousness of genres - no order of rank between them - male and female as symbols of the world's powers (custody and exposition) - the new tense arc of being man - family as a complete figure of being there - the "problems" of common pedagogy - education as initiation into the reference to Demeter and Apollo
19. The family the original model of education conforming to the world - overcoming the fragmented character of the individual - gender and age grades: not an empirical condition - the family as a "complement" - unity of erotic, nourishing and paideia - all extra-family education as a derivative of family education - the professional educator and institutions - the problem of the State
Chapter IV: the problem of the educational institution (the State)
20. What is The "integral" of the family - does it integrate the integrated tripartition of the human family - disregard for the family in the antinomies of contemporary pedagogy - the common conception of the "institutional" - State as a minimal State and guarantor of the free spheres of the State? - the true State as a relation to the world of a people - State and family - state education - commits man completely - genealogy: from family to state - Hegel's attempt at such clarification with the conceptual means of his universal ontology - dialectical relation between family and state
21. Movement of existence from family to state - concept of dialectic - dialectic and problem of the world - Hegel's conception of ethics as a way of human conformity to the world - State and religion - limits of the Hegelian conception of the state: spirit as architect of the world and as architect of the state - Plato's Thyme - critical reservations about Hegel's concept of state - the hidden dialectic of the fundamental phenomena of love, death, work and domination - family and "spirit"?
22. Criticism of the "State of today" - the metaphysical division of man - the antithesis of "State" and "civilization" decisive for school - State and Church - teaching and character formation - the legitimate school supports? - the falling State - the State of Plato not total, because it was founded "in a transcendent way" - the State of Hegel cosmological and total - limitation of consent to the State of Hegel - the references of the superextrination between eros, blood, work and domination - the passage of family education in state education - parental law and state law - concept of public - the private also in the State - need of the State: place of human reference to the world - the school as a path in the State - the state school - paideia as a way, as the state takes part in the immortality of generative life - our present situation: nihilism as obscuration and as an opportunity
Recommended Bibliography E. Fink, Introduzione alla pedagogia sistematica, La Scuola.
E. Fink, Per gioco. Saggi di antropologia filosofica, Morcelliana, Brescia 2016.
Secundary Literature:
V. Cesarone, Nel labirinto del mondo, ETS
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods The lessons will take place in a frontal way, also with the help of slides.
If Health Laws and University regulations allow, teaching activities, teachers office hours’, and exams may take place online (in whole or in part). For any further information and updates, please refer to the University website.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The learning will be verified through an oral exam expressed in thirtieth, which will be structured through two/three questions on the different topics and books of the course. From the discussion will evaluate the following aspects:
1. Knowledge of the contents of the program
2. Clarity of exposure
3. Appropriateness of language with respect to discipline
4. Personal reworking of content