Freedom as a Fundamental Premise of Jozef Tischner’s Liberal Philosophy of Education

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to raise awareness of ethical a priori in upbringing, in which the derivativeness or incompleteness of the human senses of being projected by it are often forgotten. The article answers the question: what must happen within everyday concern about a child, for a turn to be made in a child towards discovering himself as a good person, and that ethical a priori is recognized as an upbringing towards freedom principle. According to Tischner, in the sphere of upbringing towards freedom, there are four paths (transgression, transcendence, approximation, supererogation), which a child can follow, and a teacher can join him, if they only want to develop in themselves the potentiality to do good and bring up in good.