Rethinking the Human Condition In the Present.

Chances for a Humanistic Alternative to Technics’ Dehumanization

Abstract

There is a question, the most radical one, that inquires philosophy of education today. It’s a question about the contemporary human being, about his condition, about the sense and nonsense of his living and existing. The human being of our age, though, lives in a globalized world, mastered by technics and economical reason, as well as functionalism conveyed by the latter. The human being himself has been transformed into a function - a human who, in accordance to the neoliberal thought, finds in personal advantage, profit and consumption, their sole interests, in a world tending to cancel the differences and raise homogenisation and conformism. A world that condemns the human being to exercise a function and not merely to exist; all of these factors submerge the human in a whirl of senselessness and make him oblivious of himself.
These dehumanization processes, however, bring the need of an increase of awareness on the part of philosophy of education into play. Something which can only originate from a thought mirroring the complexity of reality, a critic, reflexive and meta-reflexive thought, also mirroring the responsibility of still commit to the human being and take the chance of a humanistic alternative, something that can only result from a formation able to move beyond the dominating technical thought and towards an education that forms by thinking and thinks by forming.