Quelle culture générale pour l’homme de bien aujourd’hui ? (I)
What Kind of Knowledge for Today’s Man of Culture ?

Summary/Abstract: We wonder why the general culture has disappeared from all educational repositories and from all school curricula, and why the linguistic fact occupies only a peripheral place in the representations. In the course of a philosophical inquiry, we are in search of an explanation for the marginalization of language in the imaginary of our contemporaries, although language is at the heart of human intelligence and is making a big comeback in man's capacity for thought.It is therefore a journey, abridged of course, around somme key points of the problematics of what is language and the place it occupies in our conception of the world. In our opinion, everything revolves around the cardinal points of what we call, by reduction, the Aristotelian triangle, whose three vertices are “the thing”, “the concept” and “the word”. All western culture has been and remains deeply dependent on this triple separation, which has always been challenged and is becoming more and more untenable, scientifically and philosophically. Yet it is what imposes our dominant conception of universalism, as if universality were reduced to the lowest common denominator of all our representations.This journey is made through some great thinkers or movements of thought that seem to us unavoidable for our subject. It is the philosophical outline of a more pragmatic reflection on the implications of this unfinished millennial debate on the conception of curricula outline and on education and training in general.

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