Edukacja liberalna we współczesnej myśli politycznej

• Authors: Janusz Grygieńć

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EN

Liberal Education in the Contemporary Political Thought

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the problem of the place ascribed to liberal education (and most of all to humanities as constituting its essential part) in contemporary political thought. In times when many rightist as well as leftist thinkers diagnose a crisis of liberal democracy and its educational system, displaying much anxiety about the still-lowering level of citizens’ willingness to participate in a public sphere, some of them propose their diagnosis of such situation and postulates of reform aimed at raising the level of citizens’ engagement in democratic life. One of the means to achieving that goal is implementation of the idea of liberal education, which might work in favor of students’ character development, their acquisition of a holistic view of reality, and their consciousness of the fact of overlapping character of relations binding individual and communal wellbeing. The article aims at presenting theoretical ways of defending humanities in face of contemporary restatement of the role of liberal education in Western societies. The course of argument is following: firstly the transition made in XXth century from “liberal education” to “education to liberalism” (resulting in specialization and vocational character of science) will be traced. Then the opinions of critics to such model of education will be shown, focusing on the representatives of three political doctrines: republicanism, communitarianism and liberalism. In case of each of these group of thinkers their characteristic attitude towards humanities, will be displayed.

Keywords

EN

liberal education; republicanism; liberalism; communitarianism; democracy; civic virtue; Great Books; humanities

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Kultura i Edukacja
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3(96)
• Pages: 7-27

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Janusz Grygieńć

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/kie.2013.03.01

Biblioteka Nauki

26443926