1st Edition
Bildung and Paideia Philosophical Models of Education
Editorial: Deep learning, education and the final stage of automation
Michael A. Peters
Introduction: Humanism vs. competency: Traditional and contemporary models of education
Marie-Élise Zovko and John Dillon
1. Mania and knowledge. From the sting of the gods to Socrates as educational gadfly
Michael Erler (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)
2. Purification through emotions: The role of shame in Plato’s Sophist 230b4–e5
Laura Candiotto
3. Worldly and otherworldly virtue: Likeness to God as educational ideal in Plato, Plotinus, and today
Marie-Élise Zovko
4. Paideia Platonikê: Does the later Platonist programme of education retain any validity today?
John Dillon
5. “Πᾶσα μὲν ἡ ποίησις τῷ Ὁμήρῳ ἀρετῆς ἐστιν ἔπαινος”: Greek poetry and paideia in the homiletic tradition of Basil
Sarah Klitenic Wear
6. Bild, Bildung and the ‘romance of the soul’: Reflections upon the image of Meister Eckhart
Douglas Hedley
7. Kabbalah, education, and prayer: Jewish learning in the seventeenth century
Gerold Necker
8. Philosophy of education in early Fichte
Tamás Hankovszky
9. Hölderlin’s idea of ‘Bildungstrieb’: A model from yesteryear?
Violetta L. Waibel (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)
10. Hegel’s concept of education from the point of view of his idea of ‘second nature’
Jure Zovko (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)
11. Bildung and the historical and genealogical critique of contemporary culture: Wilhelm von Humboldt’s neo-humanistic theory of Bildung and Nietzsche’s critique of neo-humanistic ideas in Classical philology and education
Tomislav Zelić
12. Friedrich Nietzsche in Basel: An apology for classical studies
Carlotta Santini
13. Werner Jaeger’s Paideia and his ‘Third Humanism’
Christoph Horn (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)
14. Radicalising philosophy of education—The case of Jean-Francois Lyotard
Jones Irwin
15. The existential concern of the humanities: R.S. Peters’ justification of liberal education
Stefaan E. Cuypers
16. Paideia, progress, puzzlement
Herbert Hrachovec
17. Rebirth of paideia: ultimacy and the game of games
Jonathan Doner
18. Education is mutual: In search of the ideal interpretation
Vladimir Stoupel and Judith Ingolfsson
Biography
Marie-Élise Zovko is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia, specializing in Platonism, Spinoza, Kant, and German Idealism and Romantic philosophy.
John Dillon is Professor Emeritus, a classicist, philosopher, and internationally renowned expert on Platonism. Professor Dillon taught at the University of California, Berkeley, USA (1969–1980), and served as Regius Professor of Classics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (1980–2006).
