Abstract

HERMOSA ANDUJAR, Antonio. The political value of education in Kant. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2016, vol.30, n.60, pp.995-1015. ISSN 1982-596x.  https://doi.org/10.14393/REVEDFIL.issn.0102-6801.v30n60a2016-p995a1015.

In his discourse on education, Kant seeks to transform the educand into a free subject capable of rationally controlling her own passions. Thus, this discourse belongs to the current phase of its intellectual history, that is, when reason has replaced nature in the task of rationally organising human coexistence on the foundations of freedom. However, this results in a twofold paradox. On one hand we encounter the contradiction that education is capable of shaping now, in the present, the subject that history would have shaped in the future. On the other, there is the strongly authoritarian consequence that, were such an education to prevail, it would result in the paradox of eliminating politics itself from the social map, whose very service it had devoted itself to in order to establish freedom in society.

Keywords : Education; Kant; Freedom; Platonism; Reason.

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