El cuidado del alma: alzarse, conmoverse De Patočka a Comenio

Abstract

This book examines the potency of the expression care of the soul (which runs from Plato's philosophy to the present one) as the “very thing” of a philosophy of education that is anchored in the tradition of transcendental phenomenology. The care of the soul demands the double movement of rising (in the sphere of subjectivity) and moving (in the sphere of intersubjective experiences), which requires a taking of a position of each one and demands a relationship with others. The book turns the attention to Patočka as a reader of Comenius and gathers his hypotheses to make use of them and to make, here and now, our own reading of the founder of modern pedagogy. At the end of the book, the concept of passivity, which is part of the heart of transcendental phenomenology, leaves a promising and plausible path for the philosophy of education.