Abstract

SILVA, Sidney Reinaldo. Os desafios do ensino frente à tradição iluminista. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2004, vol.15, n.30, pp.163-178. ISSN 0103-6831.

The French Encyclopedists’ conception of the educational role of the civilization is an interesting standpoint to analyze the ideological dispute between liberal and communitarian educational projects. This paper offers a schematic presentation of Condorcet’s criticisms of tradition as a guide for public instruction. He believes that civilization must keep overcoming the traditional patterns of action, otherwise social progress is blocked, and the “barbarian” ways of living will dominate the nations. The only way of avoiding this is a kind of public instruction that shapes the reason and moral of the peoples. Thus public instruction must teach the universality of reason and its cosmopolitan values.

Keywords : Education; Civilization; Tradition; Modernity.

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