Affective Responses and Personal Flourishing

The paper reconstructs, develops and discusses Scheler’s Bildung theory to highlight its relevance for educational philosophy. First, we point out that a personality flourishes through a process of progressive individuation which is modulated by affective maturation and promoted by the encounter wi...

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Main Authors: Luigina Mortari, Federica Valbusa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2016-11-01
Series:Phenomenology and Mind
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7128
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spelling doaj-fbbd05c8eb19418dbbf37ac739d6264f2020-11-25T03:20:55ZengFirenze University PressPhenomenology and Mind2280-78532239-40282016-11-01510.13128/Phe_Mi-1956916388Affective Responses and Personal FlourishingLuigina MortariFederica Valbusa The paper reconstructs, develops and discusses Scheler’s Bildung theory to highlight its relevance for educational philosophy. First, we point out that a personality flourishes through a process of progressive individuation which is modulated by affective maturation and promoted by the encounter with an exemplarity. Then, in order to avoid some limits of Scheler’s realism, we suggest rethinking these theses in the light of a new epistemological position (relational enactivism). https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7128bildungaffective responsesexemplarity
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author Luigina Mortari
Federica Valbusa
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Affective Responses and Personal Flourishing
Phenomenology and Mind
bildung
affective responses
exemplarity
author_facet Luigina Mortari
Federica Valbusa
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title Affective Responses and Personal Flourishing
title_short Affective Responses and Personal Flourishing
title_full Affective Responses and Personal Flourishing
title_fullStr Affective Responses and Personal Flourishing
title_full_unstemmed Affective Responses and Personal Flourishing
title_sort affective responses and personal flourishing
publisher Firenze University Press
series Phenomenology and Mind
issn 2280-7853
2239-4028
publishDate 2016-11-01
description The paper reconstructs, develops and discusses Scheler’s Bildung theory to highlight its relevance for educational philosophy. First, we point out that a personality flourishes through a process of progressive individuation which is modulated by affective maturation and promoted by the encounter with an exemplarity. Then, in order to avoid some limits of Scheler’s realism, we suggest rethinking these theses in the light of a new epistemological position (relational enactivism).
topic bildung
affective responses
exemplarity
url https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7128
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