Holistic Formation and/or One-Sided Excellence in Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Education
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Edith Stein, holistic formation, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of education, specialized formation, theological anthropologyAbstract
According to Edith Stein, the unfolding of one’s essence is limited by one’s lifepower so that it is impossible to actualise all the potential of one’s personality. For education, one of the consequences of this assumption is that we must choose between either a holistic formation or a specialized formation focusing on excellency in one specific area. On one hand, Stein recognizes that “[t]he individual human being’s power is so limited that he or she has to pay for the highest accomplishments in one field by shortcomings or deficiencies in other fields” (Stein, 2002, 507 [424]). On the other hand, she tries to avoid an exclusive choice between the two options by arguing for a mutual dependency in which wholeness is not only the condition for indepth specialization, but, inversely, specialization can open the door to what she calls “true humanity”. This via media is maintained and developed in her Christian worldview in which the vocation to communion with the Triune God is personal and as such unique, but consists in the unfolding of one’s ability to love in a way that involves all dimensions of one’s humanity.
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