THE "KNOWLEDGE'S UNITY" AS FORM OF LIBERAL EDUCATION IN THE ANALYTICAL PRAGMATISM OF GIOVANNI VAILATI

Authors

  • Ivan Pozzoni Nobody

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/3230

Keywords:

Vailati, Calderoni, pragmatism, education

Abstract

English abstract: The influence of the Risorgimento’s ideology aims at make central, in the end of 1800’s Italy, the themes of the State’s construction and of the citizens’s education, and it stimulates the same Giovanni Vailati, followed by his disciple Mario Calderoni, to tack a discourse about the make culture’s educational value and to attribute to the man of learning the role of highest educator. The vailatian debate about «liberal education» concerns on three areas of discussion: a] «knowledge’s unity» as educational ideal; b] definition of philosophy; c] definition of history of the sciences.

Author Biography

Ivan Pozzoni, Nobody

È direttore culturale della Limina Mentis Editore; è direttore de L’arrivista - Quaderni democratici; è con-direttore de Il Guastatore – Quaderni «neon»-avanguardisti; è direttore esecutivo della rivista internazionale Información Filosófica; è direttore delle collane Esprit (Limina Mentis), Nidaba (Gilgamesh Edizioni) e Fuzzy (deComporre Edizioni).

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Published

2013-10-29

Issue

No. 4-2 (2013): Ricerche

Section

Researches - Pragmatism and semiotics

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