Philosophy, technology and education. Platonic reading of Neil Postman
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education, ideology, new technologies, pahrmakon, writingAbstract
Based on Neil Postman’s reading of the famous passage from Plato’s Phaedrus about the invention of writing, this article aims to analyze which principles from the old Platonic text are relevant to a present- day reflection on technological society. Once these principles have been detected and analyzed, this article considers the consequences of their application in the field of education, within the humanities, in general, and philosophy, in particular. This article works with two background ideas. The first consists of analyzing how new technologies implement new ideologies and, therefore, are not limited to acting as simple tools. The second is to think of education as both part of the problem and perhaps the only possible solution. In this sense, education would function as a poison and a remedy, a term that we find in the Platonic Phaedrus enunciated as “pharmakon”.
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