Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21860/j.11.2.5
The problem of ecohistory in the thinking of Milan Polić
Tomislav Krznar
; Tomislav Krznar, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Učiteljski fakultet, Katedra za filozofiju i sociologiju, Savska cesta 77, 10000 Zagreb
Abstract
With this paper, we would like to connect several dimensions of the discussion on the
relationship between bioethics and education. First, we would like to open a discussion on the
philosophy of education, especially considering the contents and problems of the philosophy
of education as the Croatian philosopher Milan Polić (1946-2015) considered it. Secondly,
we would like to shed light on a set of bioethical problems, especially from the perspective
of education, since bioethics is not only an academic field of knowledge but also a social
movement. In that matter, it is a concrete, mental, and life effort to change circumstances
and reach human life, that is the life as a whole. That, by definition, includes the problems
of education. Third, we would like to re-outline the need to introduce bioethical content,
and we could say the “bioethical way of thinking”, into the structures of academic education,
especially in the programs of teacher education. In this matter, too, Polic’s thought can be
helpful. Although, as we try to show in this paper, Milan Polić maintains strong beliefs in
anthropocentric constructions and their real application in life, especially from the standpoint
of his critique of educational systems, his thought can be a significant stimulus for bioethical
considerations as a whole, which can be seen, among other things, in the ingenious use of the
concept of ecohistory.
Keywords
Milan Polić, philosophy of education, bioethics, ecohistory, education
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Publication date:
24.12.2020.
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