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On Being Human(e): Comenius' Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem

On Being Human(e): Comenius' Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem

Hábl, Jan
Root, Jerry

Paperback

PhilosophyReligion General General Education

ISBN10: 1532600569
ISBN13: 9781532600562
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Feb 21 2017
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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