The Fool's Truth: Diderot, Goethe, and Hegel

From Hypochondria to Disruption: Hegel and Stiegler on Youth

“…Childhood is its immediacy; youth is its time of uncertainty in mediation; adulthood is the certainty of the self; and old age is the whole that recollects these stages as itself, as I-philosophy. (p. 145) For our purposes here, what we can take from this ever so brief sketch of the phenomenology of Hegel is that, in the idea of absolute laceration, in the idea of Zerrissenheit or "the state of being torn apart" as Goethe puts it (Schmidt, 1996), that is, in negativity as such, there is the possibility of self-discovery. The process of development or formation we shall call Bildung, that is, "an image-a model-of which somebody or something is to become an image or model" (Nordenbo, 2002, p. 341).…”

Reasons, Language, and Tradition: The Idea of Conceptual Content in McDowell’sMind and World

“…This, in turn, inspired the works by Wilhelm von Humboldt. In using the term, Humboldt went beyond the sense of individual formation to the formation of peoples and cultures (for a detailed account, see Bruford 1975;Schmidt 1996 habits of action. David Forman claims that, due to an intricate dialectics between potentiality (i.e., capacity to do something habitually) and activity, which Aristotle develops in Nicomachean Ethics, the way consecutive steps of habituation are described by Aristotle cannot serve as a model for a broader theory of how our basic conceptual abilities are acquired.…”

“…This, in turn, inspired the works by Wilhelm von Humboldt. In using the term, Humboldt went beyond the sense of individual formation to the formation of peoples and cultures (for a detailed account, see Bruford 1975; Schmidt 1996).…”

Education for Citizenship and ‘Ethical Life’: An Exploration of the Hegelian Concepts ofBildungandSittlichkeit

“…The term that Hegel uses for this learning is Bildung , which can be translated as education or education as growth through experience . The term first appeared in the Pietistic theology of the German Reformation to denote the unfolding or revelation of God's image in man through the ‘cultivation (Bildung) of one's talents and dispositions’ (Schmidt, , p. 630).…”