Hermeneutics of the Educational Process: Bildung as Collective Intentionality
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https://doi.org/10.12775/SPI.2015.002Keywords
Bildung, collective intentionality, education, social ontology, hermeneuticsAbstract
In this essay I try to put in dialogue the philosophy of education present in the work and thought of Wilhelm von Humboldt with the reflection on the social agency and collective intentionality as presented in some of the most recent studies of social ontology, especially in reference to the work of Michael Bratman and Raimo Tuomela. My analysis intends to meet the objects of the research of von Humboldt on education and those of Bratman and Tuomela on acting collectively in order to answer the following questions: (1) can the educational process be studied and analyzed as a form of a collective action? (2) if so, what kind of team reasoning and what kind of planning does the educational process require to be successful?
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Bratman M., Shared Agency: A Planning Theory for Acting Together, Oxford University Press, New York 2014.
Humboldt, von W., On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and Its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species, ed. M. Losonsky, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.
Humboldt, von W., The Limits of State Action, ed. J.W. Burrow, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009.
Tuomela R., The Philosophy of Sociality: The Shared Point of View, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007.
Tuomela R., Social Ontology, Oxford University Press, New York 2013.
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