Die Vereinbarkeit von Willensfreiheit und Erziehung |
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| Authors: | Dr Johannes Giesinger |
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| Institution: | 1. St. Georgenstr. 181a, 9011, St. Gallen, Schweiz
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| Abstract: | It is claimed, in this paper, that free will and education are compatible. The problem of compatibility arises because education is usually seen as a way of guiding, controlling or determining someone else’s behavior. But how is the educational control of a person who is endowed with a free will possible? This question is discussed with reference to the philosophical debate on the compatibility of free will and determinism. This debate provides various concepts of freedom can enrich the pedagogical discussion of the issue. For instance, freedom might be equated with being the causal source of a person’s actions. Alternatively, we could describe freedom as the capability of a person to act otherwise than he or she actually acts. This paper argues that a third concept of freedom can help to solve the problem of the compatibility of free will and education. According to this concept, the capability to act on reason must be seen as constitutive for freedom. |
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