Ostium (Jun 2019)
A. N. Whitehead o vzdelávaní a náboženstve (A. N. Whitehead on Education and Religion)
Abstract
The philosophy of education and the philosophy of religion are two different intellectual fields that are not often thought of as intimately connected. However in the process philosophy of A. N. Whitehead they are closely related to each other. In this paper I introduce Whitehead’s ideas on education and elucidate the main concepts of his philosophy of education. Then I bring these ideas into connection with his metaphysical system and with his understanding of religion. Whitehead’s philosophy of religion is one of the most developed intellectual fields and recently there is a huge community of thinkers pursuing so called process theology. I will try to elucidate the concepts of God, morality, goodness and evil as presented in Whitehead’s work. These concepts have their specific function in the philosophy of education. Finally I will bring these ideas into relation with the contemporary problems of education and indicate their relevance.
