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« La chair du monde » and Student-subject living a virtuous life.

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Adolescence and Youth identity Cognitive psychology considers the human adolescent period to be truly important. The human brain becomes stable after adolescence, but the synaptic network strengthens or dies depending on learning and experience. This process is called ‘pruning’. About half of the synapses formed in early childhood are pruned during adolescence. This highlights how important the influence of the environment is in the process of human development. It means, it would not be an exaggeration to say that education during adolescence determines almost everything about one's future life. From Aristotle's virtue theory, a happy human life lies in “unity of virtue and action.” Even adolescents can enjoy a happy life. This kind of happy life should be based on the harmony of purpose and means at that period.  ‘Education’; the flesh of the world “ou si tout rapport de moi à l'Être jusque dans la vision, jusque dans la parole, n'est pas un rapport charnel, avec la c...

[Review]Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Education (3)

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 Avoiding some of the Consequences of Streaming The advantage of mixed ability grouping is that it provides direct instruction to every individual student. The problem with standardized education is that students may not be able to keep up with classes, and in the worst case, they may unintentionally fall into a lower group.(ibid., 15) The world horizon of teachers, students, and education “Percevoir, c'est se rendre présent quelque chose à l'aide du corps, la chose ayant toujours sa place dans un horizon de monde, et le déchiffrement consistant à remplacer chaque détail dans les horizons perceptifs qui lui conviennent. Mais de telles formules sont autant d'énigmes, à moins qu'on ne les rapproche des développements concrets qu'elles résument.” (M. Merleau-ponty, PP , 104) The horizon of the world is revealed through perception. The horizon is the place where experience and knowledge meet and phenomena are formed.  Phenomenological horizon of body-subject Merleau-Pon...

Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Jaspers: A Sickness Leading to Death

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 „ Dasein und Transzendiereu. - Transzendieren ist kein Tatbestand, del’ mit dem Dasein gegeben ware, sondern eine Moglichkeit del‘ Freiheit in ihm. Del’ Mensch ist als das Dasein, in dem mogliche Existenz sich erscheint; er ist nicht nur da ; er kann transzendieren, und er kann es unterlassen. “   (Karl Jaspers, Philosophie , springer-verlag, Berlin, 1948, p.33.) Dasein K. Jaspers' Dasein does not simply refer to the existence of the here and now. Heidegger realized that ‘Being’ cannot be identified through the averageness of ‘being’, which refers to ‘being in front of the eyes.’ So, the object nature of ‘being in front’ was defined as ‘Dasein’ by ‘humans’ who can ask existence questions. This Dasein is always concerned about something and has relationships within the world. K. Jaspers saw this understanding of Dasein as a being with the possibility of transcendence in the world. Transcendence means communicating with the world and finding the ‘true self’, that is, becoming ‘...