The Journal of Education, Culture, and Society, Jun 26, 2020
The paper aims at highlighting the philosophical roots of the relation between nature and educati... more The paper aims at highlighting the philosophical roots of the relation between nature and education in the process of socialisation. Method: For the purpose of the research critical philosophical analysis and comparison of Thomas Hobbes' and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's texts have been used. The rst part of the paper clari es the concept of nature and explains changes in the understanding of this concept through the history of philosophy, with special emphasis on transformation that happened in transition from the medieval to the modern period. Since both Hobbes and Rousseau are representatives of modern philosophy, the second section of the paper shows how the modern concept of nature manifests itself in the works of the two philosophers and compares, in a more detailed way, their understanding of human nature or natural state of mankind, focusing on the comparison of their concepts of human natural unsociability. The third part examines more closely the role of education in the transformation of human individuals into social beings. Results: Research shows that, for the two philosophers, the role of education in the process of socialisation consists of denaturalisation of human beings. Conclusion: Hobbes' and Rousseau's ideas of the relation of education and nature in the process of socialisation constitute a basis for justi cation of manipulations of education for political ends. To avoid such manipulations and nd the adequate concept of education, the paper suggests searching for an adequate concept of human nature rst.
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