Naslov
The Crisis of Humanities as a Crisis of Democracy

Autori
Vučetić, Marko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Interpretationen einer gemeinsamen Welt / Interpretations of a Common World

Urednik/ci
Agazzi, Evandro ; Arndt, Andreas ; Grosshans, Hans-Peter

Izdavač
LIT Verlag

Grad
Münster

Godina
2022

Raspon stranica
227-243

ISBN
978-3-643-91494-1

Ključne riječi
Democracy, humanities, crisis, programmed ignorance, education

Sažetak
The paper focuses on the harmful consequences of the contemporary tendency to marginalise the humanities at all levels of the educational process. Taking into account that humans are, as Martha Nussbaum puts it, intelligent narrators, a feat that they accomplish through an education in humanities, a human being is capable of enriching the structures of democratic systems with emotions and care for the humanity of each individual human being. They accomplish this through narration that has been grasped and developed by their own intellect. Unlike profit-oriented endeavours that instrumentalise human beings, the humanities offer the necessary knowledge and a method so each human being can become the purpose and the sense of a state. Democracy is exactly the setting inside which a human being is realised as a happy being. The main focus of this paper is the harmful consequences of the greatest crisis of the 21st century so far, that being the crisis of education that sees humanities as a burden that it needs to get rid of or something marginal that deserves no special attention.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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