Between Scientific Knowledge and Wisdom in Education – In the Area of the Philosophy of Education Cover Image

Między wiedzą naukową a mądrością w pedagogice – w obszarze filozofii wychowania
Between Scientific Knowledge and Wisdom in Education – In the Area of the Philosophy of Education

Author(s): Marian Nowak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: the philosophy of education; scientific knowledge; wisdom; pedagogy

Summary/Abstract: The article undertakes the problem of the identity of the philosophy of education and its specificity as one of the pedagogical disciplines at the same time, making it a model of the practice of growing, which could allow the implementation of it in old categories not only scientific discipline, but also containing and representing the pedagogical wisdom. Moreover, the whole philosophy, in order to meet the requirements of scientific knowledge, always sought to be a source of wisdom in the individual and social life (following the distant tradition of perception of the role of the philosopher as a Sage) and was not content only for the production of scientific knowledge. Affirming the statement of Th. Kampmann about the philosophy located between the age-old wisdom and temporarily conditioned knowledge, the author served as the basis for proposing approaches in basic reality of education (specifically the phenomenological method, hermeneutic, dialectical and systematical), which undertake the challenges of the life and based on the life (Lebenswelt), they would allow for the achievement of pedagogical wisdom. This proposal, not excluding the presence also of the religion – “philosophizing in faith” – as postulated Gilson, encourages the transition from scientific data (including specific sciences), for “close”, aspiring to explore “the age-old rights of the things” (aeternae rationes rerum), through which it would be possible to reach the pedagogical wisdom.

  • Issue Year: 19/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 19-38
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish