The Family as a Place of Education of Human Being. A Study on Metaphysics of Motherhood by Wilhelm Schapp

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  • Igor Nowikow

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https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.171

Abstract

Wilhelm Schapp, the German philosopher (a student of Edmund Husserl), wrote his treatise “Zur Metaphysik des Muttertums” in 1937, but the book was not published until 1965, fourteen days before the author’s death. Its theme is motherhood and family. This article attempts to interpret Wilhelm Schapp`s text; the subject of the analysis is, firstly, the meaning of the title phrase “Metaphysik des Muttertums” (“metaphysics of motherhood”), and secondly, the role of the family in the educational process. In his metaphysical work Wilhelm Schapp appears as a philosopher, strongly connected with the Christian tradition; according to him the main term of this tradition is not reason, but love, the deepest manifestation of which is motherhood.

Author Biography

  • Igor Nowikow

    Igor Nowikow ukończył z wyróżnieniem studia germanistyczno-filozoficzne na Uniwersytecie Justusa Liebiga w Giessen (Niemcy). Od roku 2009, jako stypendysta Instytutu Filozofii na Uniwersytecie im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, pracuje nad rozprawą doktorską Der Freiheitsbegriff bei Kant. Eine philosophische Untersuchung im Rückblick auf das christliche Freiheitsverständnis. Współpracował w charakterze tłumacza z redakcją pisma „Praca nad sobą”; prowadził zajęcia w szkołach wyższych w Poznaniu, Łodzi i Piotrkowie Trybunalskim. Zainteresowania autora dotyczą przede wszystkim niemieckiej filozofii praktycznej, etyki i filozofii chrześcijańskiej. Tradycja, do której nawiązuje w swoich badaniach, to twórczość filozoficzna Jana Schappa oraz Wilhelma Schappa.

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2013-09-09

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2013)

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