Education - how is it possible? Arising and development of the discussion on the conditions of the possibility of education 1790 to 1810 ("Transcendental philosophy of education")

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Alfred Langewand
• Subject Area: General Education and History of Education
• Term: from 2014 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 251945359

One voice within kantian debates between 1790 and 1810 had been the philosophy of education, treating the "conditions of the possibility" of education in a kantian manner. In the beginning concentrated on moral philosophy, the discussions expanded on conceptual relations were established with the philosophy of law, the philosophy of nature, with aesthetics an with psychology - an all this with one great theme, the concept of freedom. This concept, the center of Kant's philosophy, proved to be contradictory since C. Chr. E. Schmid had published his "Versuch einer Moralphilosophie"/An essay on moral philosophy in 1790. Schmid's diagnosis: in Kant's philosophy freedom and fatalism are the same! From then there was good reason for a new foundation of "freedom" as well as a new foundation of "education".

• DFG Programme: Research Grants