Reality as a Basis of Education to the Good in Josef Pieper’s Works-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Reality as a Basis of Education to the Good in Josef Pieper’s Works

Published:2023-07 Issue:1 Volume:9 Page:191-206
ISSN:2336-680X
Container-title:Historia scholastica
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Author:

Nemec Rastislav,Blaščíková Andrea

Abstract

The contemporary educational system is oriented on performance and productivity. German philosopher and sociologist Josef Pieper (1904–1997) was one of the big critics of this orientation and a defender of holistic education. The aim of this study is to analyse two of Pieper’s essays dedicated to education to the good – Total Education and Reality and the Good (both 1935) – and to present his concept of the “holistic education” that is based on them. In these two essays, Pieper analyses education as a formation of the spiritual soul in its ability to know and to act: knowledge is born as a result of our openness to reality in its divine root, and action is a response to this known good. Pieper identifies the educated man as being constantly open to the totality of reality, questioning unilateral, normative, performance-oriented and “specialized” education.

Publisher

Technical University of Liberec

Subject

Education,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),History

Reference30 articles.

1. PIEPER, Josef, 1963. Leisure: The Basis of Culture. Translated by Alexander Dru. New York: Random House, Inc.

2. PIEPER, Josef, 1965. The Four Cardinal Virtues. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Lawrence E. Lynch, and Daniel F. Coogan. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.

3. PIEPER, Josef, 1989. Dnešní člověk a kontemplace. Teologické texty (Samizdat), No. 6, pp. 4-8. Available from: https://www.teologicketexty.cz/casopis/1989-6/ Dnesni-clovek-a-kontemplace.html.

4. PIEPER, Josef, 1990. Only The Lover Sings. Art and Contemplation. Translated by Lothar Kraut. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 0-89870-302-6.

5. PIEPER, Josef, 1992. Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power. Translated by Lothar Krauth. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 0-89870-362-X.