Wer soll den Menschen zum Guten erziehen? Kants pädagogisches Denken und pädagogisch denken mit Kant

Abstract

This paper outlines and exposes the basic features of Kant’s pedagogical thinking, which accompanies his philosophical works, to make it prolific for today’s reflection on Pedagogy. First the introduction argues for how such an attempt can be justified in general. Then the explanations concentrate specifically on the educational problem Kant formulated in his anthropology, which consists in the fact that human beings must be educated to the good, but those who educate them are in turn human beings who themselves need such an education. To find a way to handle that problem the central question determined is: Who does Kant recommend as a teacher for educating people to be good?