Hegel and Philosophy of Education (I)

In European eighteenth century the reform of pedagogy or the education of chidren and youth was one of the most important themes discussed in the families, social gatherings and a variety of auditoriums. These debates reached neteenth century centered in a incompatibility between the necessity of disciplining chidren and youth and, at the same time, to guarantee that the educative action favors the development of moral or ethic autonomy, horizon of protestant ethic. To Bernard Bourgeois (1978) the philosophy instituted by G. W. F. Hegel is both “a pedagogical philosophy and the pedagogical philosophy” (p. 9-10). For Hegel education process consist of becoming conscious of the need of limiting one’s impulses in order to realize oneself as an ethical being. The educational process takes the immediate subjectivity [without mediation, undetermined, in itself, singularity or individuality] to, from the exterior, conduct it to the mediate subjectivity [educated man: “citizen”], determined...