Naturalness as an Educational Value

Naturalness as an Educational Value

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ID11952302
AuthorsSune Frølund (0000-0001-9352-357X, Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume50
Issue4
Pages655-668
Publication date2016-02-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-9752.12167
OpenAlexW2259317084
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Existentialism and post-modernism have both abandoned the idea of a human nature. Too, the idea of naturalness as a value for education has been targeted as a blind for conservative ideology. There are, however, good reasons to re-establish a sound concept of human naturalness. First of all, the concept does not seem to have disappeared from common usage, despite all criticism. Secondly, the idea of naturalness seems essential to our sense of ourselves, and for the formation of our identities. And finally, the idea is the inevitable basis for the possibility of a radical criticism of society and culture. I will present two suggestions for a rehabilitation of the concept of naturalness: Gernot Böhme’s phenomenology of body and nature, and Christoph Menke’s “genealogical reflexion”

Aesthetics · Criticism · Epistemology · Existentialism · Ideology · Naturalness · Phenomenology (philosophy · Physics · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Scientific and Historical Analyses

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