2020-04Thematic Section
Modern Socratic Dialogue and Resilient Democracy: Creating the Clearing for an American Bildung

31/03/2021  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0042

Abstract: This article puts forth Modern Socratic Dialogue as a pedagogical tool for cultivating an American Bildung. Beginning with Michael Hogue’s work on “resilient democracy,” an associational ethos that is vulnerable and based on our lived uncertainty. To further establish this American Bildung, I investigate what it means to be American. Drawing from the…

Jan Molina

2019-04Forum
Education, Philosophy, and Morality: Virtue Philosophy in Kant

31/12/2019  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0045

Abstract: This article investigates the interrelated roles of education, morality, and philosophy in Kant as a response to the transactional view of humanity promoted by the spirit of capitalism, known as the “capital form.” This article investigates the effect of the capital form upon educational institutions and self-cultivation, or Bildung. Kant’s views on…

Jan Molina