Educated Person and Philosophy (Does Education Make a Person Educated?)

The article discusses the question of who counts as an educated person. The general concept of an educated person seems to be too broad, abstract, and meaningless. This concept is inadequate for sociological, anthropological, and cultural analysis, because it specifies no clear measure or criterion of an educated person. If the general definition is turned into a more concrete and historically based one, it will be more productive and efficient in terms of research. When education becomes a subject of “historical philosophizing”, it evolves from “gaining systematized knowledge and skills” to “upbringing an educatee’s personality”, which is a socio-philosophical matter. The article discusses various meanings of the latter definition. Starting from G.W.F. Hegel’s ideas about education, the exact meaning of the concept of an educated person and the features distinguishing them from an uneducated person are analyzed. The conclusion is drawn about the place of philosophy in the process of education (obviously, its role is decisive).

THE ESSENCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL PROVISION OF HIGHER LEGAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

The relevance of the article is that any physical or social phenomenon is characterized by external visible to all and deep hidden from the general public provisions. If the first can be seen and evaluated by any inquisitive person, the second can be identified and analyzed only by a highly competent professional. All this fully applies to the problem of administrative and legal support of higher legal education in Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of citizens who are more or less involved in the process of obtaining higher legal education have certain opinions about it. However, only a small part and this is primarily scholars of law can understand the deep internal factors of the analyzed issues. As is known from philosophy, the internal aspects of any philosophical matter are most aptly characterized by the gutter of essence. In today's conditions, legal education in Ukraine is experiencing a period of positive renewal on the basis of the Euro-Atlantic community. However, in the process of carrying out this activity there are both certain legislative inconsistencies, as well as conservative resistance of some scientific and pedagogical orthodoxy. What needs, as a doctrinal essential further improvement of administrative and legal support of higher legal education in Ukraine. The article reveals and generalizes the essence of administrative and legal support of higher legal education in Ukraine. These are the most important in-depth connections regarding the public administration of higher legal education in Ukraine. It is of universal value, socio-cultural phenomenon and scientific-pedagogical process on the basis of realization of the synthetic concept of education and student-centric direction of administrative activity of subjects of educational and upbringing process on subjects of public administration. It is concluded that the essence of administrative and legal support of higher legal education in Ukraine is the most important deep connections in public administration of higher legal education in Ukraine as a universal value, socio-cultural phenomenon and scientific and pedagogical process based on the synthetic concept of education and student-centered administration. activities of subjects of educational and upbringing process on subjects of public administration.

Anmeldelse af: Lars Albinus, Religion as a philosophical matter – concerns about truth, name and habitation

Anmeldelse af: Lars Albinus, Religion as a philosophical matter – concerns about truth, name and habitation, de Gruyter open 2016, 249 s., hardcover £ 107, kan downloades gratis på www.degruyter.com

The Origin of the Olive: On the Dynamics of Plato’s Menexenus

Plato’s Menexenus is a persistent puzzle for interpreters, in the main because of its obscurity of purpose and apparent lack of philosophical matter. This article argues that, while no doubt an elusive piece, it can be counted quite definitely a sdialogue of philosophical import, as well as one of its author’s most subtly accomplished works. The article focuses on two portions of Aspasia’s oration—the account of the earliest Athenians and the exhortation to the living in the voice of the dead—to demonstrate the radical nature of the speech. Close attention to its subtle internal dynamic reveals not only the range of philosophical themes touched upon, but also its outrageous aspects and the strength of its indictment of the Athenian democracy. The article also affirms the consistency of this critique with Plato’s reservations regarding that regime as expressed with most force and clarity in Republic and Gorgias.

[Tdotu]ūsī and Copernicus: The Earth's Motion in Context

A passage in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus regarding the rotation of the Earth provides evidence that he was aware, whether directly or indirectly, of an Islamic tradition dealing with this problem that goes back to Na[sdotu]īr al-Dīn al-[Tdotu]ūsī (1201–1274). The most striking similarity is the use of comets by both astronomers to discredit Ptolemy's “proofs” in the Almagest that depended upon observational evidence. The manner in which this question was dealt with by Copernicus, as an astronomical rather than natural philosophical matter, also argues for his being within the tradition of late medieval Islamic astronomy, more so than that of medieval Latin scholasticism. This of course is bolstered by his use of non-Ptolemaic models, such as the [Tdotu]ūsī couple, that have a long history in Islam but virtually none in medieval Europe. Finally, al-Qūshjī, who was in Istanbul just before Copernicus was born, entertained the possibility of the Earth's rotation; this also opens up the possibility of non-textual transmission.