On Being Human(e) (eBook)

Comenius’ Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem

Jan Hábl (Autor)

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2017
202 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
9781532600579 (ISBN)

Infos

There is a difference between that which is and that which is to be. Anthropologically: there is a way I am, and the way I am to be, or not to be. How are we to explain this? This book presents the argument that human nature is both complex and complicated in at least two specific ways--ontologically and ethically. In our being we are indisputably good, dignified, worthy, important, or even noble. But in our morality we are ambivalent--capable of both good and evil, the humane and the inhumane.
In his paramount work Jan Amos Comenius expresses the goal of his lifelong endeavor: "to help keep man from falling into a non-man" (Pampaedia). If human beings are to become what they ought to be, they need to be educated towards humanity, says Comenius. But the fundamental question is, what is a human being? And what ought one to be? "Salt ought to be salty. A river ought to be clear. A knife ought to be sharp. But what ought a person to be?" What is the essence of our humanity? And how can that be cultivated or educated? This book presents Comenius's answers to these questions.

Autor

Jan Habl is a professor of pedagogy at universities in Usti nad Labem and Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.2.2017
• Vorwort: Jerry Root
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Schlagworte: Education • Educational Psychology • Jan Hábl • learning styles • On Being Human(e) • Pedegogy • Philosophy • Philosophy of Religion • Religious
• ISBN-13: 9781532600579 / 9781532600579