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Toward the Idea of a Character: Kant, Hegel, and the End of Logic

Published:2021-12-01 Issue:4 Volume:55 Page:1-24
ISSN:0021-8510
Container-title:Journal of Aesthetic Education
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Author:

Burke Victoria I.

Abstract

Abstract In the prime years of Hegel’s philosophical career, Prussia made progressive reforms to childhood education. Hegel had long supported reform. In his early Stuttgart Gymnasium Validictory Address (1788), he had advocated for a public interest in widespread public education as a means for developing the children’s potential. Like Wilhelm von Humboldt, Hegel believed in education’s power to promote individual development (Bildung) as a path of freedom, which is achieved largely by expanding children’s linguistic capacity since language, as Humboldt understands it, is the formative organ of thought (bildende Organ des Gedankens). By combining Humboldt’s insights (especially his discussion of the power of Sanskrit) with themes in Hegel’s Science of Logic, I will demonstrate that the mind’s power to make judgments is a forward movement that can be arrested by epistemic injustice. Humboldt’s reflections on linguistic flowering and the factors that might impede it can help us understand epistemic injustice as an interference in linguistic cognitive mediation (Vermittlung).

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Subject

General Arts and Humanities,Education,Organic Chemistry,Biochemistry

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https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jae/article-pdf/55/4/1/1460149/jaesteduc.55.4.0001.pdf

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2. 2. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues, ed. August Friedrich Pott (New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1974), 64

3. trans. Peter Heath, On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999), 54 (Humboldt's italics). In subsequent notes, the German page number will proceed the English translation, as in 64/54.

4. 3. The concept of “epistemic injustice” became a major focus of feminist inquiry after Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice: Ethics and the Power of Knowing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

5. 4. Hegel’s use of the German noun Mittel is usually translated by the English term means and is translated by Fergus Kerr in an essay on Ludwig Wittgenstein by the English term “devices.” Fergus Kerr, “Metaphysics and Magic: Wittgenstein’s Kink,” in Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology, ed. Philip Blond (New York: Routledge, 1998), 241.