@article{ART002274537},
author={Donguhn Suh},
title={Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination},
journal={The Journal of General Education},
issn={2465-7581},
year={2015},
number={2},
pages={7-35},
doi={10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7}
TY - JOUR
AU - Donguhn Suh
TI - Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination
JO - The Journal of General Education
PY - 2015
VL - null
IS - 2
PB - Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
SP - 7
EP - 35
SN - 2465-7581
AB - Education in Korea today, from the elementary school, the middle and the high school through college, has generally based upon a method of indoctrination. Liberal education in college also has tended to frequently repeat such a method of inculcation. In usual scenes of liberal education in college, a professor lectures and students write in their notes. A class exists only for the mid‐term and the final exams. It would not be possible at all to cultivate autonomous, creative and personal subjects in such old and passive way of teaching. If college education is to foster new cultured citizens, one needs to deconstruct the existing way of acquiring knowledge and to seek a new way. It is through dialogue and discussion that one can try to cultivate citizens with democratic and critical awareness. It is very closely related to the development of philosophical imagination. ‘Philosophical imagination’ refers to the awareness of the limitation of knowledge and some rational and critical capacity to reach at creative insights. This article seeks to help student know how to develop such a philosophical imagination by introducing imagination, especially philosophical imagination, which was developed in Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, and adopting Socrates’ maieutic way as to enrich imagination.
KW - liberal education;philosophical imagination;the maieutic method;metaphysics
DO - 10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
ER -
Donguhn Suh. (2015). Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination. The Journal of General Education, 2, 7-35.
Donguhn Suh. 2015, "Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination", The Journal of General Education, no.2, pp.7-35. Available from: doi:10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
Donguhn Suh "Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination" The Journal of General Education 2 pp.7-35 (2015) : 7.
Donguhn Suh. Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination. 2015; 2 : 7-35. Available from: doi:10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
Donguhn Suh. "Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination" The Journal of General Education no.2(2015) : 7-35.doi: 10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
Donguhn Suh. Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination. The Journal of General Education, 2, 7-35. doi: 10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
Donguhn Suh. Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination. The Journal of General Education. 2015; 2 7-35. doi: 10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
Donguhn Suh. Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination. 2015; 2 : 7-35. Available from: doi:10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
Donguhn Suh. "Liberal Education and Philosophical Imagination" The Journal of General Education no.2(2015) : 7-35.doi: 10.24173/jge.2015.12.2.7
