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    On Being Human(e): Comenius’ Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem
    On Being Human(e): Comenius’ Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem
    On Being Human(e): Comenius’ Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem
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    On Being Human(e): Comenius’ Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem

    By Jan Hábl and Jerry Root

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    There is a difference between that which is and that which is to be. Anthropologically: there is a way I am, and the way I am to be, or not to be. How are we to explain this? This book presents the argument that human nature is both complex and complicated in at least two specific ways--ontologically and ethically. In our being we are indisputably good, dignified, worthy, important, or even noble. But in our morality we are ambivalent--capable of both good and evil, the humane and the inhumane.
    In his paramount work Jan Amos Comenius expresses the goal of his lifelong endeavor: "to help keep man from falling into a non-man" (Pampaedia). If human beings are to become what they ought to be, they need to be educated towards humanity, says Comenius. But the fundamental question is, what is a human being? And what ought one to be? "Salt ought to be salty. A river ought to be clear. A knife ought to be sharp. But what ought a person to be?" What is the essence of our humanity? And how can that be cultivated or educated? This book presents Comenius's answers to these questions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPickwick Publications
    Release dateFeb 21, 2017
    ISBN9781532600579
    On Being Human(e): Comenius’ Pedagogical Humanization as an Anthropological Problem
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    Jan Hábl

    Jan Habl is Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic. He has taught systematic theology and ethics at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Prague. He has authored a number of books and studies in the areas of philosophy of education, ethics, and pedagogy, including On Being Human(e) (2016) and Even When No One Is Looking: Fundamental Questions of Ethical Education (2018).

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