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Nietzschean Education and Gelassenheit-Education

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Education; gelassenheit education; the end of philosophy; Friedrich Nietzsche; Martin Heidegger; acadenic freedom

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Friedrich Nietzsche was elevated to the status of one of the most important philosophers by Martin Heidegger. In his Nietzsche lectures, Heidegger (1977, p. 179) declares that philosophy has reached its end and that Nietzsche was the one who completed it. For Heidegger, traditional philosophy is synonymous to metaphysics. The philosophy does not simply end, stop, or vanish but attains its ultimate potential, which is the beginning of thinking. This possibility allows for the emergence of something new, which Heidegger refers to as Ereignis. This kind of new beginning is not based on the traditional understanding of the history of philosophy but thinking itself. According to Heidegger, the sciences have been separated from the ideas of philosophy. Philosophy comes to its end upon the completion of the separation between philosophy and...

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  1. University of Eastern Finland, Jyväskylän, Finland

    Leena Kakkori

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Kakkori, L. (2016). Nietzschean Education and Gelassenheit-Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_349-1

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