When Plato tells that Socrates declares in his defense that he is not a teacher, since he has nothing at all to teach, the philosopher entrust philosophy itself the problem of its institutionalization. This is a burden that philosophy has carried as a discipline until this very day and age, as we can tell by its struggle to stand its own ground in current educational systems. From that point on, we can weave questions such as: Can philosophy be taught? Who are fit to uphold and perform this task? What is that must be taught?
Four authors tackle this conundrum about institutionalization and how this process has resonated in our educational systems: Francisco Bilbao, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Rancière. The goal of this investigation is to reveal how their proposals are intertwined and to exhibit the challenges and obstacles that each author perceives in their own time period regarding the relation between philosophy and education.
Lucero Díaz, N. (2018). On Institutionalization and Philosophy: Four Outlooks Regarding Philosophy and Education. Resonancias. Revista De Filosofía, (4), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2018.50351
