READING
SUMMARY
Education as a
promotion of offspring’s towards the perfection of man as man, that is the
state of virtue. This definition links all the element of education to the
reality. Perfection of “man as man” the double goal of matter and spirit. “Virtue
denotes the symptom of the education.
(ST. Thomas Acquinas)
From the philosopher Fritz
Schumachern come to the rescure
by showing what an education
based on the metaphysics of being should
be. Schumacher open a philosophical window over the four possible field of
knowledge that enrich the mind to its limits. The tabulated they are:
Knower/known self 1 and 2, others 3 by and things 4 by 4.
The “self” and the “others”
on the left hand column are the subject of knowledge those at the top plus
things are the object of knowledge.
In the table there the
numbers to the four fields of knowledge according to their importance. First
come the knowledge of self by oneself, second the knowledge of self by others,
third the knowledge of others and fourth that of things. The number 3 and 4
appears twice it is because there is no real differences between knowledge acquire
first or second hand whether of people
or things.
This is the natural
order, and therefore the wisdom of what ought to called education. Infarct in
the course of the four chapters he mention neither the word “education” nor
“metaphysics”, showing that what he had in the mind is to show the landmark in
the map of life as he calls it.
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