Adam Zieleńczyk’s philosophy of education

Abstract

The starting point of this article is the conviction that pedagogy is related to philosophy, which is treated as one of the types of human thinking constituting the essence of our being. The article notes that for A. Zieleńczyk, philosophy is the result of mental work, it is a certain form of action consisting in cleansing our thinking of subjectivity and must be reconciled with the criteria of scientific thinking. By upbringing, on the other hand, he means leading to “certain pre-determined moral convictions”, which are to constitute an essential component of human spirituality. Using the method of reasoning based on the hermeneutical analysis of sources, and rules of inference, the author of the article proves that A. Zieleńczyk’s concept of upbringing assumed a striving for moral convictions. Zieleńczyk assumed the pursuit of a balance between the education of reason and the will to act aiming at the realisation of the world of specific values. The basis of this process was to be the education of the independence of critical thinking, action and the support of the development of natural talents and formed interests. It can be the basis for contemporary education and upbringing.