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INFINITY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ACCESS KEY TO PHILOSOPHICAL EDUCATION THROUGH MATHEMATICS

Author(s): Paolo Bussotti / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

In some previous contributions of mine written for Scientia Educologica’s journals (Bussotti 2012; Bussotti, 2013; Bussotti, 2014) I dealt with the possible use of history of mathematics and science inside mathematics and science education. There is an abundant literature on this subject and I only tried to offer some ideas on possible educative itineraries in which history of mathematics and science could play a role. I had no claim to supply elements for a general theory on the relations history of mathematics-mathematics education and history of science-science education. In this editorial, I would like to deal with a possible interdisciplinary link between philosophical education and mathematics. This link is given by the infinity. The following considerations are valid for all those countries in which some high schools exist where philosophy is taught and, in general, for every course at a philosophical faculty in which the problem of the infinity is faced. Furthermore, they can also be useful in the teaching of mathematics at the high school when the concepts of infinity and infinitesimal (typically while dealing with calculus) are introduced.

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КУЛТУРНО ПРОФИЛИРАЊЕ НА ПРОБЛЕМАТИКАТА НА ТЕЛОТО И ТЕЛЕСНОТО: НЕКОИ ПРЕТПОСТАВКИ НА ДУХОВНОСТА НА ИСТОКОТ ПРЕКУ ЗАДОВОЛУВАЊЕТО НА СЕТИЛАТА

Author(s): Radomir Popovski / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 11/2013

This text deals with "cultural story of the body", suggesting that some kinds of sexual practice (like Tantrism) provides spiritual enlightenment - especially in the culture of the East. Obviously, we can accept the claim that "body is not only a cage for the spirit", but much more than that: it allows the bridging directed towards the enlightenment. For example, teachings in the eastern culture sometimes could be transferred even by the silence. Taking into account the tactile and spiritual, in the second half of this article I do think the eastern experience of "sexual practicing through the door of enlightenment" - illustrate important strands of cultural features, different by the same strands in "opposite direction": Occidental culture. In further consideration, attempts to enter the subjective world of Vaishnavs meditations, taking them seriously on their own terms, are evident represented. The tactile is the bridge to the spiritual enlightenment.

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