Pedagogika i religia u Sergiusza Hessena

Abstract

This article was inspired by the monograph Sergiusz Hessen – pedagog odpowiedzialny (Sergei Hessen – the Responsible Pedagogue) by the contemporary philosopher of education Andrea Folkierska. Her monograph passes over the religious dimension of pedagogical thought in the work of this Polonized Russian, who like no one else left his mark on 20th century philosophical pedagogy in Poland. The article comprises five points. Firstly, the author attempts to explain why the contemporary renaissance in Hessen’s thought belittles religious references contained in his texts. Next, she points to the locus philosophicus, which contains Hessen’s concept of the „dialectic relationship” between moral upbringing and religion. After this, in the third point, the author postulates the replacement of unclean dialectic, i.e. the two-factored dialectic almost unanimously accepted in the most recent interpretations as the paradigm of the famous Russian’s philosophy of upbringing with the aporetic one (Gr. aporia – difficulty). Against this backdrop, in the fourth point, the author reflects upon Hessen’s definition of pedagogy as „applied philosophy”. Finally, the author analyses Hessen’s view on the influence of religion on the process of becoming human in the moral dimension, particularly with reference to the Christian understanding of God as the supreme (saving) Good and fullness of Love.