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Document Details : Title: To Save the Legomena Subtitle: Theory, Praxis and Narrative in Ethico-Educational Perspective Author(s): VAN COILLIE, Geert Journal: Bijdragen Volume: 73 Issue: 2 Date: 2012 Pages: 212-227 DOI: 10.2143/BIJ.73.2.2172319 Abstract : The starting point of the paper is the relation between Plato and Aristotle, as well as the inextricable tension between theory and praxis, depicted in The School of Athens by Raphael. Metaphysics and science, however, tend to disregard the (inter)human truth of practical experience and personal knowledge. The lifeworld thereby becomes the blind spot of an all-encompassing theoretical and technoscientific view – an abstract and universalistic logos – which desubstantializes and ‘patho-logizes’ the lived ethos. A real and well-constructed ethical theory of education thus presupposes the mediation of – dialogical and narrative – praxis. To save the phenomena implies first of all to save ‘the legomena’ (what is said). The article concludes with a plea for a contemporary and alternative social and educational science which respects the ‘concrete universality’ of man. |
