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Aim: The presentation aims at highlighting the philosophical roots of the relationship between nature and education in the process of socialisation. Methods: For the purpose of the research conducted, critical philosophical analysis and comparison of Thomas Hobbes‟ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau‟s texts have been used. Concept: The first part of the presentation clarifies the concept of nature and explains changes in the understanding of this concept through the history of philosophy, with special emphasis on transformation that happened in transition from the medieval to the modern period. The second section of the presentation shows how the modern concept of nature manifests itself in Hobbes‟ and Rousseau‟s works and compares, in a more detailed way, their understanding of human nature or natural state of mankind, focusing on the comparison of their concepts of human natural unsociability. The third part examines more closely what role, according to Hobbes and Rousseau, education plays in the transformation of human individuals into social beings. Results: Research shows that, for the two philosophers, the role of education in formation of human sociability consists of denaturalisation of human beings. Conclusion: Hobbes‟ and Rousseau‟s ideas of the relation of education and nature in the formation of human sociability constitute a basis for justification of manipulations of education for political ends. To avoid such manipulations and find the adequate concept of education, the presentation suggests searching for the adequate concept of human nature first. |
