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Kindheit ‒ Jugend – Demokratie. Von der Kontingenz, dem Verschwinden und der Normalisierung der Jugend in modernen Gesellschaften
Benner, Dietrich; Stępkowski, Dariusz (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2012)
Contrary to appearances, childhood and adolescence are not only biological phenomena, but also something overtly historical. Thus, they can and must be considered in the context of democracy. The article is divided into four parts. First, the authors recall that in Greek paideia, childhood was hardly given thought and that it was only the Renaissance that saw changes to the concept of man, which led to crystallizing the concept of modern childhood and youth. The second section reconstructs the meaning of the terns “childhood” and “adolescence” in the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The theme of the third part is the historicity of childhood, adolescence and adulthood, which the authors discuss against the background of Neil Postman’s thesis about the disappearance of childhood and adulthood. In the fourth and final section, the authors attempt, first of all, to clarify what really is disappearing forever, and what remains despite transformations, and, secondly, to indicate the central issues in the relationship between childhood, adolescence, and democracy.
Kształcenie religijne. Rozważania na temat rozróżnienia między koncepcjami fundamentalnymi i fundamentalistycznymi
Benner, Dietrich (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2010)
After the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, social debate on the topic of religion boiled up anew. This was provoked by the terrorists themselves, who justified their actions on religious grounds. In this context, the author of the articles considers how to distinguish fundamental from fundamentalist approaches. As an educational theorist, he emphasises that people are “doomed” to Divine revelation in the same way that God could reveal Himself only to humanity – teachable beings. Thus, in his opinion religion is a specific form of human activity (praxis) in which and through which the person gives expression to his own serendipitous existence by developing a “religious musicality” within himself. This phrase means that each individual is given a feeling of “absolute dependence” (F. Schleiermacher) on God. On this basis, the individual as a thinking being, active and reflective, should do “everything accompanied by religion, and nothing because of religion” (F. Schleiermacher). According to the author it is precisely this criterion which allows the distinction between fundamental and fundamentalist attitudes.