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Educating the ingenium: On Spinoza's perfectionism and the pedagogical relation
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Childhood, Education and Society (BUS).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1669-7132
2024 (English)In: Theory and Research in Education, ISSN 1477-8785, E-ISSN 1741-3192, Vol. 22, no 3, p. 272-286Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This essay (written in response to Steven Nadler’s article in this issue) seeks to interrogate the promise of Spinoza’s perfectionism for education. It does so by first establishing Spinoza’s perfectionism as a striving toward the intellectual love of God, occasioning an investigation of the relation Nadler sets up between Spinoza’s and Maimonides’ perfectionist schemes, and then evaluating the educational currency of such a striving. It is argued that while Spinoza’s highest good is difficult to construe as a widely attainable educational aim, it allows for two different educational pathways, where one focuses on the reeducation of passions via narratives adjusted to the ingenia of students and the other on attaining the highest good. At a glance, these two pathways come across as radically different in their setup, but they are aligned insofar as the stability of the community (agreeability) is a precondition for the striving for intellectual perfection. In parallel, this tracks how a pedagogical relation – being necessarily asymmetrical from the outset – can evolve into a relation of mutual friendship once the striving for perfection is identified and accepted as a common goal.

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Sage Publications, 2024. Vol. 22, no 3, p. 272-286
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Ingenium, perfectionism, Spinoza, the pedagogical relation
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Pedagogy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-71483DOI: 10.1177/14778785241286695ISI: 001336956200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85206585473OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-71483DiVA, id: diva2:1904851
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